Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running high against Jewish intransigence in general and the Zealot rebellion in particular. In this climate of fear, argues Brandon, Mark wrote the first Gospel for the young Roman church. Because his audience was already suspect as subversive, Mark wrote his account of Christ's life with the implicit purpose of clearing Christians of any involvement in Jewish rebellion...
...committed temporarily to Bellevue Hospital in New York. In the central conversation between Plantagenet and the Doctor, Lowry plays the Doctor's practical, mindlessly psychologistic comments against Plantagenet's solipsism. At the same time, however, the Doctor's words serve as a kind of objective warning against the distortions implicit in Lowry's habit of creating only autobiographical characters...
This highly sophisticated joining of visual and literary artistic parts makes the distinctive McClelland style a wonderful one that might someday be widely significant. But implicit in such complexity is the hazard of too-muchness. Very rarely, McClelland interjects one little irrelevancy that is just too irrelevant--it is this that makes "The Great Goodison Toad Hunt" a chore to re-read for the fifth time (if that can be termed a fault...
These political, ethical consequences are implicit in the Prankster way of life, in the experience of acid itself. And perhaps if Kesey hadn't been busted (he eventually served a year's sentence), he could have invented the kinds of pranks that would help people to be less scared of the world and of themselves...
...commentators on the left this year, Mailer is much more charitable toward the Republican Convention than the Democratic. He was surprised himself at his diminished hatred for Nixon. The man still suffered from slickness. "His ability to slide off the question and return with an answer is as implicit in the work of his jaws as the ability to bite a piece of meat." Yet, adds Mailer, adversity seems to have mellowed, even deepened him. "The new Nixon had finally acquired some of the dignity of the old athlete and the old con -he had taken punishment, he knew...