Word: implicit
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Feminine awareness has not killed chivalry, but it has subtly changed the rituals of social encounter between the sexes. Chivalry as an explicitly male-to-female practice has always implied a world of condescension-weaker women deferred to, cosseted, on the implicit theory that they were physically handicapped. Some women mourn its decline...
...these services, offered or actually performed, there was also the implicit signal that Hoover could find out almost anything and even Presidents should handle him with care. He ran the agency for 48 years and was seven years beyond the mandatory federal retirement age when he died in office...
...careless lumping together of what is in fact a remarkably diverse and independent collection of publishers and broadcasters. Yet Fulbright may have a point when he is worried about the spread of an automatic, "emotional mistrust to Government in general." He calls for "a measure of voluntary restraint, an implicit agreement among the major groups and interests in our society that none will apply their powers to the fullest." Not a bad precept-and not an easy one to apply in a system that depends on adversary relationships, among press, politicians and courts, as well as relationships of trust...
...Consulting is a Harvard phenomenon," says ZviGriliches, Professor of Economics. "At the University of Chicago we were paid a good salary and expected to devote time to teaching--academics was always number one. But implicit in the offer of a Harvard professorship is the fact that one can take a $10,000 cut in salary because the money can be made up on the outside." At Harvard, Griliches concludes, with the strip of technological firms along Route 128, the more than 100 consulting companies in the Boston area, and the east coast network of law firms, "there is a whole...
There are definite problems with this approach. For one thing, Morphos must sacrifice some suspense on the altar of comic effect, and as a result, the final revelations lose part of their force. In addition, her emphasis curtails the range of emotions implicit in the script, since characters as different as the cynical Mr. Paravicini and the pathetic would-be architect Christopher Wren emerge in this production as similarly successful comic types. Sometimes laughter intrudes where it shouldn't; for example, Wren's paranoid outburst in the second act ("You're all against me, everyone's always been against...