Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is now an implicit understanding that no judgment should be released that might well be open to attack later as improperly considered," says a court insider. "There has never been a formal vote of the Justices on that rule, but everyone understands...
...home from Helsinki, Ford planned similar short visits to Rumania and Yugoslavia, the most independent-minded East bloc nations. There, as in Poland, the implicit message of his presence would be clear: within the framework of detente, the U.S. would like to do what it can to encourage a spirit of independence in Eastern Europe...
...suspension of time implicit in the device of these four divided selves is partly responsible. With several Hemingways at once, all at different ages, the date of the play has to be vaguely late forties. Four characters is okay; four different decades would he too much. So this grand tournament of writers is static--which is unconvincing, unless Hemingway compared himself to many other writers, despite his own distinctive style, and unless his source of approval was no more specific than the general acclaim of the bestseller lists...
DECTER might have been more convincing had she relied purely on fiction. Much of the best literature has elements of sociology implicit in it. But if readers are to draw parallels between characters and themselves, there must be some way to identify with the characters. The characters in Radical Children never attain the depth necessary for such identification, for the prefatory letter clearly distinguishes between the reader and the read--and anyhow who is willing to identify with a character named "the girl" who has been labelled "The Pothead...
...Patrolmen's Benevolent Association accepted the layoffs, though with bitterness and threats of work slowdowns. Firemen called in sick in record numbers. The sanitation workers, with the token protest but implicit approval of their union leadership, illegally left their jobs, promising to turn New York into "Stink City" and shouting from picket lines, "Wait 'til the rats come...