Word: explicitness
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That point was made emphatically last week by Boston University. When King was enrolled, the school declared, rules for citation were "strict, explicit and explicitly made known to all graduate students." The university has formed a blue-ribbon committee to investigate the alleged infraction. At worst, the school could strip King of his doctorate posthumously. But even though the revelations may tarnish King's reputation, they hardly diminish his - courageous and inspirational accomplishments in helping to achieve racial justice for millions of black Americans...
...with Lynch's Wild at Heart, The Eagle Has Two Heads is stuffed with symbolisn and thick with metaphors. The Queen predicts the events of the play with a deck of fortune-telling cards. Stanislas is also known as Azreal, or "angel of death." And there are fairly explicit allusions to, and indeed, reenactments of, such works as Hamlet. But this self-conscious symbolism need not be over- analyzed; it exists merely to provide texture...
...have ever been that this aggression will not stand," he declared. "We have a lot of troops there, and they are highly motivated. That alone is sending a strong message to Saddam Hussein." Speaking in Los Angeles the same day, Secretary of State James Baker was even more explicit: "We will not rule out a possible use of force if Iraq continues to occupy Kuwait...
When Samantha, a consultant to a California nonprofit corporation, is invited to company events in which spouses are welcome, she brings her housemate, Jill, a college professor. The two women are rarely explicit about their relationship. They just assume that co-workers will infer, correctly, that they are lovers. "I never came out and told people at work I was a lesbian," Samantha says. "You don't come out and tell people you're straight. I felt it was up to them to figure...
...Klansman won a seat in the Louisiana legislature as a Republican and is running for the U.S. Senate; in spite of recent revelations that he once used a pseudonym to co-author a book that included explicit sexual techniques, he hopes to force a runoff with Democrat J. Bennett Johnston...