Word: explicitness
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...Soviets. Yet even that provides only a framework for seeking better relations with the Soviets. "It is foolish and dangerous to believe that we can manage this relationship by deterrence alone," said Vance. "We will also need to provide positive incentives. We must work for implicit, if not explicit, agreements to bound our competition by restraints, by a kind of common law of competition ... We cannot afford wild swings from being too trusting to being hysterical...
...with their gravely shuttling collage-like overlaps of bright and dark color, are marvels of pictorial intelligence. The two versions of his Three Musicians, 1921, show what Picasso could do when his sense of form was fully engaged. The classicizing drift of the early '20s took its most explicit shape in the Three Women at the Spring, 1921. Their dropsical limbs resemble a Pompeian fresco inflated with an air hose, even though the full-size sanguine drawing for the painting, which Picasso kept for himself, has the genuinely classicist air of unforced, continuous modeling...
...College should be more explicit in expressing its support for "the minority presence at Harvard and the necessity of good race relations on campus...
...learned about female circumcision, but it was never my subject. About 30 years later a paper on Female Infibulation was published in Studia Ethnographica Upaliensia XX, 1964. The author is Professor C.G. Widstrand, Director of the Nordic Africa Institute. His well documented paper has what Dr. Counter calls "explicit photographic materials on violence against women(and children)"--Dr. Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned! To his outbursts about my intelligence and academic training I state that apart from University and field studies and continents, I have taken courses with Curt Sachs...
...first White House Press Secretary Jody Powell flatly declared that "the President has sent no message to Khomeini. Period." Pressed by reporters, Powell was even more explicit in saying that "no such message" had been sent by the President or any other U.S. official "to Khomeini or anyone else." Not until the Swiss disclosed that they had in fact delivered two notes from Carter to Banisadr did Powell admit that there had been messages. His original statement had been misleading, intentionally so, and he refused to clear up the confusion for two reasons. First, he did not want to endanger...