Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After years of incremental progress in token minority admissions, colleges began full-scale programs to bring minority enrollment to the level in the overall population. Whether rigid or merely implicit, these programs took the shape of a quota system for minority admissions. This practice has provoked an outcry of "reverse discrimination" from whites who say blacks and other minorities don't have to work as hard to get into college...
...wanted to extend to the Houses the sort of centralized, streamlined, standardized efficiency implicit in things like Hall's reorganization of Buildings and Grounds, Kiely or Peretz or Vorenberg might be the sort of people he'd appoint, and he might well appoint them only for five-year terms...
...injustice that is implicit in this situation cannot be righted by poor whites fighting with people of color over the few crumbs that are being thrown them. Whereas Blacks constitute about 12 per cent of the population, the medical school classes of '72 contained fewer than 3 per cent Blacks. The classes of '73 contained 5 per cent non-whites (which includes Orientals, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Native Americans and Blacks...
...psychic--the way the characters, and the camera, look at things; the love scene full of remembrances. The visual events of this film are the most important since The Conformist, and if on a few occasions there are slight problems with the film, it is because of problems implicit in the story itself. The film is far from perfect. It is groping in its originality and in its attempt to rise above its subject material--that is partly what makes it such an exciting film...
Recent diagnosers of the national psyche have asked, and partly answered, the questions implicit in their titles. Will America's 300-year-old marathon, The Pursuit of Loneliness, never stop? inquired Philip Slater. Theodore Roszak wondered whether the counterculture of the '60s could lead to a Promised Land, Where the Wasteland Ends. Half autopsy-reporters of the American Dream, half scenario-writers of America 2001, watchers for the new greening (or the last withering) form a kind of avant-garde of prophets-in-waiting...