Word: explicitness
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OVER A YEAR AGO a collective of Boston-area actors and political activists decided to revive the Living Newspaper form and take it a step further by making explicit a political analysis of current events. While the Cambridge-based Living Newspaper has followed the tradition of the 1930's Living Newspaper by producing whole plays on specific subjects--they have written and produced a play about the nuclear power industry and are presently working on a drama about polyvinyl chloride poisoning to be called "The Tip of the Iceberg"--their weekly productions at the Red Book Store near Central Square...
Critics of the Somoza family's corrupt, baronial, four-decade reign hope that the Carter Administration will make that concern more explicit. Says a leading opposition member: "Nicaragua is a case where Carter can show that his advocacy of human rights is not just words. That is why Somoza is so nervous." Should the Administration choose to act, it has substantial leverage. Nicaragua's National Guard relies on U.S. weapons and is scheduled to receive $2.5 million in military sales credits in fiscal 1977. Loss of that aid is something that the American-trained Tachito Somoza (West Point...
...cases make bad law, Flynt's may be a classic of the genre. His was one of the most important obscenity trials since the Supreme Court, in Miller v. California (1973), abandoned the notion that there are national standards of what is acceptably sexually explicit in print and film. Instead, the court held that local juries could decide what is obscene for their communities.* Publishers and civil libertarians now fear that Flynt's conviction may encourage local law officials to harass other national publications, including those far more acceptable to most Americans than Flynt's seedy monthlies...
...real city is most visible in the erotic poetry which sprang from his own experiences--those of a homosexual necessarily but bitterly shackled by the conventions of his milieu. The evolution of these poems from composition to publication reveals a progression from cautious ambiguity to an increasingly more explicit statement of the poet's passions. Such an advancement mirrored Cavafy's developing belief in honest acceptance of one's passions and surroundings, in bowing to the inevitability of circumstance and human limitations. This belief became the sole moral yardstick by which he could judge him self and others. The creation...
...Sociobiology Study Group has also pointed out Wilson's explicit sexism. Wilson traces male dominance in modern human societies to the alleged universal division of labor between male and female humans in hunter-gatherer societies. He treats males as the active agents of evolutionary progress and females as "only DNA's way of making more DNA." Consequently, Wilson argues...