Word: explicitness
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What can be the "obvious attraction" for a woman, Freudian or otherwise, in "battling a steel ball at targets, into holes, and through chutes"? The writer's explicit association of this description of pinball with sex indicates an abhorrent link in his mind between sex and violence toward women. Mr. Attanasio is not selective, though, in displaying sexual prejudice. He also exhibits racial arrogance in depicting Tommy's Armenian restaurant-owner who emits word-like syllables between "aargh's and grzhth's" and a pinball-playing "short Canuck in a bogus leather jacket." Another writer claims that, "For entertainment, "Whorehouse...
...constituted a conscious attempt to equate Zionism with obvious examples of racism. Tiamiou Adjibade, the U.N. delegate from Dahomey, admitted that "in essence Zionism was not related to apartheid", yet in the same breath he linked the two. American publications made the same spurious connection. One letter drew an explicit analogy between South Africa and Israel, terming Jewish fear of anti-semitism a 'red herring...
...HRDC) and Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. The administrators sat down with HRDC officials in order to clarify the group's position on casting and auditions in mainstage productions. Although the administrators condemned Hail's mistreatment, they shied away from setting down explicit guidelines for future auditions; likewise, the students sympathized with Hail, but hesitated to impose constraints on Garry's artistic prerogative...
With the birth of LIFE in 1936, Larsen returned to magazines. For ten years he presided over the picture weekly's extraordinary success. In 1938, when the magazine published explicit photographs of childbirth. Larsen went to the office of a Bronx assistant district attorney and ceremoniously sold a copy to a detective; the D.A. charged Larsen with selling an obscene publication. The incident brought national publicity to LIFE and a test case involving the First Amendment's free-press guarantee. Larsen was acquitted...
...carefully proposing changes only in the "strategic environment," while keeping intact the painstakingly negotiated SALT II text, Kissinger was able to stress that his proposals would not require new bargaining with the Kremlin. Explicit Soviet approval would not be needed for the strictly unilateral actions sought by Kissinger. He thus distanced himself from those Senators who have demanded fundamental revisions in the accord, such as Henry (Scoop) Jackson of Washington and Jake Garn of Utah. Minority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee has also been seeking major changes of the pact's provisions, but he hinted that his position might...