Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that his movie raises; he merely suggests the universality and complexity of its problems. Uncertainty is at the film's center. Yanos questions himself so completely that he becomes unsure of the existence of the girl. In an age of doubt the threat of losing one's moorings is implicit in every variation of routine. Adrift is a magnificently crafted and disturbing reminder of every man's tenuous hold on the secure and the controllable...
...front runner, Edmund Muskie. To Nixon's chagrin, Muskie had suggested a peace plan that went beyond his own; it would call for a fixed U.S. withdrawal date and urge the Saigon leaders to "move toward a political accommodation with all the elements of their society"-with the implicit threat of a U.S. aid cutoff if Saigon refused...
Steiner said yesterday that he expected the current case might provide "sup- porting basis" for a suit against virtually all termpaper companies on the basis that they breached an "implicit educational contract" between universities and students...
...human differences (individual and group, environmental and genetic) is an integral part of my subject, and my subject, like any other academic discipline, may properly be set before the general public in an open society. And not only do I disagree with you, I reject the tone of implicit moral superiority in your letter. I do not believe, and you have not proved, that free and honest discussion of human differences will promote racial injustice or retard its termination. And that, whether you recognize it or not, is actually the issue between us. R.J. Herrnstein...
Such an argument is so deficient as to be insulting: deficient in its implicit analysis of history, economics, sociology, and social philosophy; Insulting in its fear to declare itself fully as the advocate of an end to all programs of assistance designed to help right three centuries' wrongs...