Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Implicit in the whole ecological argument and in your cover article on Alaska [July 27] is the assumption that nature's way is the best way, that if man had never tampered with nature his life would have been much healthier and longer and his spirit would have remained free and uncorrupted. Nothing could be further from the truth. As your own article points out, the Aleuts, Eskimos and Indians of Alaska have only a life expectancy of 35 years, and most live broken, impoverished lives. Nothing is more savage, cruel or capable of breaking...
Finally there was the horror implicit in Mrs. Kasabian's account of a random search for murder victims who still do not know how close they came to death. Before Manson finally settled on the LaBiancas, she said, he and his followers had taken a long, circuitous drive around Los Angeles seeking victims. At one small house the sight of chil dren's pictures made him turn away; a locked door on a church may have saved a clergyman...
...today she is waitress in Child's Restaurant. Columbus Circle." Unadulterated camp is screamingly funny just because it is so guileless. Humor is closely bound to context, and an amusing line in 1936 becomes a hilarious one in 1970, precisely because the time warp can kleig-light meanings only implicit in the original...
Rebirth is the great Alaskan lure: the state is full of escapees from the crowds and pressures of the "Lower 48" states. The frontier spirit is implicit in dozens of fetching place names: Big Fritz, Mary's Igloo, White Eye, Tin City, Hungry, Cripple, Stampede, Eureka, Paradise and Purgatory. It is clear in the state's forgiving customs. There is no death penalty, for example, and if a first-time murderer is a man, he rarely spends more than a few years in prison. For a woman...
When Nixon speaks of his duty to protect troops in the field, he usually couples it with emphasis upon his role and responsibilities as Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Of course, he is far from the first to emphasize the license implicit in the role of Commander in Chief. Invoking its powers to justify the use of U.S. troops in the absence of a declaration of war has been a resort of Presidents almost since the Republic began. But the device has become increasingly popular since World War II. Harry Truman made use of it to send...