Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists are forced to give up all hopes of testing theories on the constructive use of the atom, atomic research will lose many of its most devoted and imaginative workers. Even if the ban is legally only a temporary one, there will be a strong moral commitment implicit in it, which may make it difficult ever to resume tests. Considering the possible finality of the agreement they are undertaking, the men at Geneva should introduce flexible provisions governing peaceful experimentation under an international agency...
...selection printed in the Advocate has the virtue of containing ideas, both explicit, as the narrator is intelligent and articulate, and, we may infer, implicit, as Robinson can control the relationship between the reader and the narrator. Unfortunately, a defect of the "excerpt from a novel" as a literary form is here evident; the figure of the narrator can only begin to emerge. The reader finishes wanting to see more and unable to find it in print...
Bishop Newbigin, who has spent twenty-two years in India as a missionary, and has thought deeply about the meaning of his experiences, dealt with massive tidal movements of society in our time, only one of which is the repudiation, implicit or explicit, of the Christian faith by most members of western society. This declaration, on which you have based your headline and lead sentence, can be understood only in the context of the entire lecture. Further, that a Harvard reporter can state in one paragraph, "He called for a return to a cyclical religion," and two paragraphs later report...
...first sight there is nothing particularly Christian about a physics formula. But the scientific world civilization is more than abstract thought. It consists of a body of knowledge, its systematization, the multiplication of tools and implements for using the knowledge, and an implicit belief that human life can and ought to be changed. This last aspect requires that human history be seen as a linear, irrversible movement, and is therefore opposed to the deeply-rooted belief of eastern religions in a cyclical theory of change in human experience. Further, can science, which has grown up in the Christian notion...
...Roof, Tennessee Williams' savage dissection of a tormented Southern family, which has as its hero an implicit homosexual. (Article III, Section 6: "Sex perversion or any inference of it is forbidden...