Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least change) that has appeared in 20th century America. Obversely, a number of businessmen, while transforming the society by automobiles, advertising, computers and urbanization, refer to themselves as conservatives, a term suggesting opposition to change. Almost any so-called radical utterance these days will contain an explicit or implicit rejection of the mainstream of change during the past 150 years, together with a longing for a future society conceived as a static Elysium. As for the modern liberal position, it has been more noted for restraining (sometimes wisely, sometimes foolishly) the forces of change than for stimulating or liberating them...
...haired boy dressed in red against a blue background. They feed him single words and he responds: "Aristotle"/"Red," "Circle"/"Lion." As in One Plus One's interview with Eve Democracy, we immediately begin weighing his responses for their political significance ("Revolution"/"October," "Stalin"/"Airplane.") Then, however, the problems implicit in this mode of presentation suggest themselves- problems that become more explicit in a similar interview with an old, possibly senile man. When the subject does not respond is it because the device feeding him words is faulty, or because his hearing is bad, or because words like "tenderness" simply...
...justices seemed to have very much patience with lawyers for Southern school boards who argued earnestly that pupil assignments should be "color-blind," based only on "proximity and convenience." Implicit in the court's previous decisions has been the idea that since assignments based on race created segregation, they can now be used to dismantle it. But the Administration's modest view of how much desegregation is necessary seemed to win some sympathy from Justice Harry Blackmun as well as Burger. Justice Hugo Black, long a staunch advocate of rapid desegregation, hinted that he was now skeptical...
...faculty and minority students produced a preliminary plan that would have admitted half of City's freshman class "without regard to grades." Politicians denounced the scheme as a "quota" that would elbow out normally qualified students. Blacks were skeptical because the quota had a specified limit-like those implicit in methods for admitting minority students at other U.S. colleges and universities. Bowker was secretly pleased when the tenured faculty and the board of higher education turned the plan down...
...interpretation states, "It is implicit in the language of the Statement ... that intense personal harassment of such a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others be regarded as an unacceptable violation of the personal rights on which the University is based...