Word: implicit
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During his campaign for the nation's highest office, John Kennedy more than anything else had pledged active, energetic, day-to-day and hour-by-hour leadership. In short, he had promised to do things. Implicit in his franchise for doing things was the fact that he would provide Americans, and all the world, with many memorable moments...
President Kennedy has given Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a free hand in selecting his subordinates-even at the risk of backing down on some implicit pre-election promises. One victim of the policy was Joseph D. Keenan, international secretary-treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and a loyal Democratic campaigner. Kennedy had Keenan in mind as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, but when McNamara proved lukewarm, the President decided not to press his choice. After he vetoed Keenan for the Defense Department post, McNamara attempted to soothe hurt labor feelings by calling on A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George...
...Christ, the man, as a kind of supreme culture hero embodying every man's unending quest for his better self. At best noble in a pagan way, at worst blasphemous and sentimental, self-made religions are immune to true-false tests, and their devotees usually ignore the irony implicit in one of the play titles of Pirandello: Right You Are, if You Think...
Smashed Hopes. Clearly implicit was a threat to the throne itself, for there was no provision for a King in any of the vague federation schemes being promoted. Feverishly, Baudouin himself began summoning party leaders - including the Socialists - for urgent talks on the assumption that once the labor trouble ended, demands for federation would fade...
...swashbuckling, 2,000-line epic of Cortes in Conquistador to the modern morality play in J.B., MacLeish himself is tempted to an omnibus generalization on poetry: "'What is the meaning of all song?' Yeats asks himself, and answers, 'Let all things pass away.' " The implicit proviso is "except this poem," and MacLeish goes on to say: "To face the truth of the passing away of the world and make song of it, make beauty of it, is not to solve the riddle of our mortal lives but perhaps to accomplish something more." What is that evasive...