Word: explicitness
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...matters to a successful conclusion. If only we had not "fought with one hand tied behind our back," America would have won this war just as it won all the others. Yorktown, Midway, Normandy, Da Nang--they're all the same. But this argument, implicit in the documentary and explicit in the statements of Ronald Reagan and others, reflects a dangerous tendency both then...
...make it easier for whites in the south and elsewhere to abandon the public schools and form exclusive sanctuaries from their Black neighbors. These all-white academies have been among the most egregious attempts to block integration in the south, and with its decision, the Administration has offered its explicit support to these institutions of bigotry...
...Army Faction, a band of left-wing terrorists mentioned as potential allies by Dozier's captors. The West German group has been linked by authorities to the September attempt near Heidelberg on the life of General Frederick Kroesen, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Said Spadolini: "The explicit attack on NATO, the connection with the attack in Germany, demonstrates that in the new strategy of terrorism there is a prevailing international objective...
...engage in advantageous social or business dealings with them, while concealing facts that these acquaintances need in order to evaluate their character....shouldn't a person be allowed to protect himself from disadvantageous transactions by ferreting out concealed facts about individuals which are material to the implicit or explicit representations that those individuals make concerning their moral qualities...
...inhabit both schools. The results of his energetic production are collected in the 200 pictures-100 in high-intensity color-in Tom Wesselmann (Abbeville; 321 pages; $75). The artist's huge women are usually blank idealizations adrift in mundane rooms, like the fantasies of adolescent boys. Others display explicit but deadpan eroticism among billboard-style oranges and ashtrays. Always provocative, usually amusing and sometimes shocking, Wesselmann's work reflects America's amorous obsessions. In his windy and erratic assessment, "Critic" Slim Stealingworth tends to overvalue the artist's impact on his age. That...