Word: explicitness
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Such work resists categories. In theory, Welch could be placed on the gay studies shelf: he was a homosexual, and his female characters are sometimes men in literary drag. But there is nothing erotically explicit in these stories, no precious attempts at special pleading. He could belong with the invalid writers, like Marcel Proust and Flannery O'Connor, whose illnesses gave them a vital solitude. But unlike them, Welch had little interest in society. As his biographer, Michael De-la-Noy, notes, "Politics, literature, indeed the entire world outside his bedroom window, scarcely existed...
...less openness in American society generally about birth control that, according to Guttmacher researchers, constitute one of the most striking differences between American adolescents and their European peers. In Sweden teenagers are sexually active even earlier than they are in the U.S., and they are exposed to even more explicit television. However, the Swedish National Board of Education has provided curriculum guidelines that ensure that, starting at age seven, every child in the country receives a thorough grounding in reproductive biology and by age ten or twelve has been introduced to the various types of contraceptives. "Teachers are expected...
...film to be seen by 15 people in Greenwich Village," he says. "I wanted to get the couple in Ohio who will argue about the picture on the way home." For sophisticated world travelers, though, there is talk that the European version will be a tad more explicit...
...meantime, Matory had placed his motion on the docket, calling for an explicit up-or-down vote on Summers’ leadership. Most professors at the time believed it would not pass...
...publishers themselves to determine which books and periodicals could be digitized and made searchable online. Since this agreement, however, Google has also launched the Print for Libraries Project—a separate branch of the effort that copies universities’ books and materials without publishers’ explicit consents...