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...Paris, where no one had known in advance what Delouvrier planned to say, a De Gaulle aide angrily called the speech "delirious," which was a fair description of it. And at the insistence of De Gaulle himself, the government hastily put out a communique repudiating Delouvrier's implicit offer of amnesty to the insurgent leaders beyond "the barricades across which men long to embrace one another while they fear to kill one another...
...defendant capable of killing a human being? After some hesitation, Linda said, "I don't think so." Lawyer Floriot wrung from Linda the admission that she had taken a new lover since André, a young Belgian who worked for the Palais des Nations, and he left implicit the suggestion that if the jealous Jaccoud had been planning to kill anyone, it would have been the new lover, not the father...
...cast had a few problems with the medical profession. After reading the script, Dr. Russell Meyers, chief of neurosurgery at the University of Iowa, sent off a flamboyant, eight-page, single-spaced letter to NBC Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff. Meyers had many complaints, centering on the script's "implicit false optimism." One claim that Dr. Meyers disputed in particular was the script's suggestion that Photographer Bourke-White's surgeon had invented the special technique used in her operation. The technique should be credited, said Meyers, to Meyers. The script was slightly changed to indicate that only...
...suggest a network of veins to her breast. The hint of despair in her eye reinforces the impression that she is being sucked dry by her thoughtless, greedy child. In its bitter message, stated with subtlety and thoughtfulness, this work provides a revealing antithesis to the view of children implicit in Amen's prettified prints like To Wonder...
...bogeyman not only for sociological or economic errors but for his faults in epistemology (theory of knowledge). Unfortunately, the power of logic stands somewhat diminished when Russell is bound to mention, almost as an afterthought, that "nearly half the world today is governed by states that put implicit trust in Marx's theories...