Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satire on the absurdity and vulgarity of genuine antiSemitism. Bystanding critics found another explanation in the detachment of modern French literature from French life, the tendency of writers like Céline to regard writing as a disinterested mental game, to be played without thought of the social values implicit in their work. In Manhattan last week, big, broad-shouldered, nervous Celine partly confirmed their view, described Trifles' for a Massacre as an "exercise." Admitting that he had written it in the hope of delaying preparation for war, he said it would not delay war a minute, would probably...
...helping Indians to "turn back to their so-called ancient cultures, and to revive pagan practices and ceremonies of the pre-Columbian era." This "appears to the Christian forces of America to be a denial of the right of Indians to enter into an appreciation of their Christian heritage, implicit in their status as American citizens...
Some will feel that such passages accomplish, or at least adumbrate the sea-change implicit in Poet Pound's thematic material. Others will feel that they are merely adept professional steals from worn-out bags of poetic tricks-in this instance ancient Chinese-exquisitely lighted and beautifully shaped, like every drop of water that ever pleased a duck, and ran right off his back. Opinions pro or opinions con, Poet Pound has 49 Cantos still to go before he circumnavigates to judgment...
...that feeling of responsibility that accompanies unqualified freedom. It is the murder of that firm conviction that freedom of the press is a necessity. For a long time now, Americans have held that conviction, and they have never had cause to doubt it. At the same time, the obligations implicit in this mandate have steadily advanced the American press in accuracy and responsibility. Often, to be sure, it has damaged the country's reputation abroad, but censorship has always been too high a price to pay for reputation...
...goodly growth and ponder on the supreme reality. We learn how to win friends and influence people and we have developed a magnificent prejudice for Fascism. We have taken the voodoo out of somnambulism and replaced it with an implicit belief in that supreme bit of charlatanism, that elucidation of common sense by the application of erudite proper nouns, known as Psychology. We still like jazz but we have made it svelt and called it swing; we still like our women more or less naked but we produce a plausible excuse in the sacred name of "athlete." And while...