Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work that they have produced is quite unique in the history of photography, but all in all, not particularly great. Their "visual statements" send to have all of the paradoxes implicit in the term; their photographs become a sort of cartoon where everything is exaggerated visually in order to assure their "message...
...indescribable grandeur and poignancy. He was rooted in his own time and society. Moreover, he was sure that that society-optimistic, promethean England with its empire and its burgeoning industrial revolution, now rising from its triumph over Bonaparte-was in fact on the edge of collapse. This is implicit in Turner's Venetian paintings, where the fretted and tottering profiles of the once omnipotent city melt (so ravishingly, and with such implied finality) into their last erosion by light and water...
More subtly, the notion of meritocracy (the idea that a social hierarchy based on supposedly objective qualities is natural) ideologically supports a racist status quo. The ethos of professionalism, while pretending to esteem scholastic excellence, in fact promotes racist ideas, implicit as well as explicit, under the guise of value-free research...
...kept up the noise but lost the content. Sometimes it tried to club people into oblivion, deaden their senses (great with quaaludes). Or it tried to take people into an abstract other-world, a zillion steps past mere escape. Or it turned the great strength of the music--its implicit threat to the existing order--into a parody of itself, dressing up in paint and feather boas...
...agricultural nations with excess production potential can buffer the hungry and increasingly populous nations through donations of food grains on an ever increasing scale has finite limitations. Already there is some evidence that the people of developed nations cannot indefinitely accept the progressively higher taxes and reduced living standards implicit in continuing large-scale and growing foreign...