Word: explicitness
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Kemelman's mysteries are unpretentious models of their kind. He writes orderly, ungimmicked plots, creates cleanly drawn characters and scrupulously avoids explicit sex and sadism. He places his mysteries in the context of the busy, stable life of a Conservative Jew. The rabbi's liturgical calendar, the duties and derelictions of his flock, their relations with the town's Roman Catholics-represented by Chief Lanigan and Father Ahern-are all taken with wry, judicious seriousness. There are few such solid series around. Chesterton and Father Brown would bless Kemelman and his rabbi...
...Dutch economy. At first the Dutch had merely hinted they might cut off supplies of natural gas, 41% of which they export mainly to West Germany, Belgium and France. Last week, at a meeting of the European Economic Community Foreign Ministers in Copenhagen, the threat was made explicit...
...author, at any rate, reaches this vantage point only after a brilliant forced march through history. The legal powers of the President he sees as being continually modified by a conception of John Locke-never made explicit by the Constitution, but very much in the minds of the founding fathers -that a democratic leader in a genuine emergency has the prerogative to act according to his discretion for the public good, provided he checks it out with the people and the legislature afterward. Through a succession of skirmishes and undeclared wars, and various employments of Executive agreements (which tended...
...oppressed and against the exploiter. Cox embodies the crucial distinction between what a radical theologian might be and what sociologists of religion (and most everything else) traditionally have been. In asserting his commitment to certain values and concerns, Cox has made his norms, however partially formulated, at least explicit and not hidden behind a rhetoric of objectivity...
Reisman: The main thing to remember about this period before the New Deal is that at this time still approximately 90 per cent of the Negro population was living in the South. In the South there were open segregation laws--it could impose segregation both by explicit legislation and by threat. So Negroes in the South could not have acted in the way they would under self-interest. ...In the North, you did observe great progress. The situation of Negroes in the North was vastly superior to that of Negroes in the South...