Word: explicitness
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...conflict between radical and orthodox social science comes down, in one sense, to the radicals' wish to make explicit what they believe has always been implicit: that social science and social scientists are part of the society they live in, and that interaction between society and the university flows more than one way. To the radicals John Dunlop's shuttling between Cambridge and Washington to make clear to former President Nixon that wage and price controls were a fine thing was evidence of both the university's influence on the society's conservative leader and the conservative society's influence...
...hotel and kills all the collaborators except Lucien, who is hidden upstairs, a captured member of the Resistance offers him a chance for pardon if he will help him escape. Lucien rejects the offer--the man has irretrievably insulted him by asking how old he is. Given an explicit chance to re-enter society and save himself, he rejects it--out of pique...
DOGAN MAINTAINS that the film has an explicit political message, that it is an examination of corruption and apathy within the government. But its appeal seems to be more in its obvious good-will-win-over-evil message. Political ideology is submerged beneath the surface of individuals in conflict. The government is merely a force in the background, not the central focus of the film. And the conflict itself sometimes borders on the melodramatic...
...Shortly after the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography issued its report in 1970, Publisher William Hamling brought out his own version of it-fleshed out with 546 explicit illustrations of what the report was talking about. His $12.50 publication quickly sold 50,000 copies before the Government cracked down. A jury decided that though the book was not obscene, Hamling's promotional brochure was. He drew a four-year sentence and $87,000 in fines. Three employees of his were also convicted. A 53-year-old millionaire who has published books by J. William Fulbright as well...
...movie is an appropriate time for mobilizing against these ideas and advocating ideas opposed to them. The potential of Saturday night's action needs to be judged in this context--not in an artificial isolation permitting it to be lumped with every action that has ever set an explicit limit on free expression...