Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband shot and blinded himself. But a hurricane made all clear: Author Burt rings down a rosy curtain on his lovers and their island. The tale is entertaining but seriously intended, carefully but (at times) garrulously written. In real life people never talk so wordily to their point; implicit in Author Burt's novels is the conviction that talk is important. A satire on U. S. cultural vices, Entertaining the Islanders is also an earnest plea-which Burt-readers have heard before but will willingly hear again-for a more refined, intelligent, cultured, splendid, "gently bred...
...there is the smell of old stew in the entry over the kitchen and the rare collection of pornographic, there is the proud colonial library and the trolley line on Boylston Street. Some of these features are new, but the middle class remains, and with it all that was implicit in the term Smith Hall...
...House Alumni News is a milepost in the development of the House Plan, an indication whose significance is deeper than the six mimeographed pages of "general interest" notes would at first suggest. Beneath the informal, chatty nature of this slender publication lies, in an essential way, all that is implicit in the term "House," all that the founders of the House Plan have hoped...
Seen in such a light, the modest note of success, assumes more significance than would be implicit in a simple justification. "The trends in the College," he remarks, "have been toward a less vocational objective, a recognition of the principle of self education, and a stimulation of more vivid intellectual interests... All the more notable changes that have been made...have been designed to promote the four trends, and especially the last... They are merely a means to an end, and others might have been quite as effective; but these are the ones we have tried, and it would seem...
...movement in American education today." To carry it forward was founded, in 1919, the Progressive Education Association, which now has some 7,000 members. The philosophy of Humanist John Dewey and the work of pioneering Colonel Francis Wayland Parker (1831-1902) of Quincy, Mass. and Cook County, Ill. are implicit in much Progressive teaching. That education at any age should grow out of free individual experience rather than from books is a Progressive fundamental. Because parents who send their youngsters to Progressive schools are of necessity liberal-minded people, and because the system demands their active cooperation, it does...