Word: explicitness
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Nissenson, whose previous fiction (My Own Ground, A Pile of Stones) dealt almost exclusively with Jewish subjects, extends his range with this novel. He never steps out of character to make any of its burdens explicit. Keene does not know the meaning or historical import of the events he jots down in what he calls his "Waste Book." No longer able to believe in heavenly salvation, he does think of his journal as "my hope of Immortality." It will take a few decades to reach a firm verdict, but a first reading of The Tree of Life strongly suggests that...
...Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities makes explicit those essential principles underlying our community. The incidents of last spring at 17 Quincy Street and Lowell House raise, for the first time in many years, questions of application: what specific kinds of behavior fall within and without the bounds enshrined in the Resolution. The crux of the matter, of course, is that different rights and different responsibilities sometimes come into conflict. Such conflict is inevitable in any setting in which discourse involving differing opinions on issues of great importance is a significant part of ongoing activity. It is expecially...
Just ask the organizers of the MIT-Harvard symposium who planned a slide program showing sexually explicit, pornographic images to the conference's participants for educational purposes. Because of MIT campus guidelines, the feminists, some of whom support the Cambridge referendum, could not exhibit the slides without prior approval from the university six weeks in advance...
Though the women moved the slide presentation down the street to Harvard, it's ironic that these feminists were trapped by their own reasoning and were not able to show explicit images for a legitimate reason...
Noted feminist and author Kate Millet accurately described the moral quandry many of us face over the banning of sexually explicit materials we find offensive...