Word: explicitness
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...committee, said last week that the Institute's first director may implement recommendations of groups such as the United Committee for Third World Organizations. But more importantly, the director may disregard any Afro Department requests. Since the Afro Department has a history of minimal faculty support, failure to make explicit the Institute's formal relationship to the Afro Department would frustrate the Afro Department's attempts to sanction programs through the Institute. If formal connections with Institute and the Afro Department were reinstated in the plan, the Afro Department would be in a better position to reap the full benefits...
...language, rather than a vulgarian's assault on le beau et le bien. Ten years ago, Art Historian Robert Rosenblum predicted that "the initially unsettling imagery of pop art will quickly be dispelled by the numbing effects of iconographical familiarity, and ephemeral or enduring pictorial values will become explicit...
Their immediate appetites receive detailed and very explicit satisfaction for a couple of hundred pages. Then Sharon, who beneath that pneumatic exterior turns out to be as resourceful as a Girl Scout, engineers the bloody downfall of her gruesome band of lovers...
Vandervoort and his staff of 24 counselors tackle the full range of sexual woes from premature ejaculation to simple marital boredom. The approach is novel, to say the least. One of the clinic's most controversial innovations is a weekend marathon of sexually explicit education films shown to as many as 20 couples at once. The screening, which includes a few old stag reels (for "historical interest," says Vandervoort), helps reduce anxiety about sexuality while at the same time demonstrating some typical patterns of sexual behavior. Six hours of movies and a lengthy discussion with counselors are enough...
Besides granting explicit authority for rationing, the new bill would give the President broad powers to control the way Americans use energy. Instead of merely requesting that businesses reduce outdoor advertising and ornamental lighting, for example, the President could order them to do so. Presumably, he would also get the power to set national highway speed limits and to limit supplies of fuel to commercial airlines. If the nation's energy supplies continue to be pinched, the President would invoke such measures long before resorting to rationing-and not only for philosophical reasons. A careful study of the contingency...