Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, such behavior is not wholly without rationale. Although Alexis de Tocqueville once said that Americans had a special predilection for group association, modern advertisers today's news anchors emphasize the dangers implicit in communal trust. In a society riddled with menacing sound bites, the passenger two seats over could very well be a psychopathic killer, a child molester or even a teenager who just dumped her baby in the trash...
...often fosters traits which are diametrically opposed to the ethos of resistance to the status quo. Professors and courses which promote autonomy and resistance exist at the College, but I find them to be few and far between. Harvard usually teaches and socializes its students, often through subtle and implicit mechanisms, to prize tradition and to submit or defer to authority...
...election results were preordained, if not precooked. For months it had been a foregone conclusion that the next President of Iran would be Ali Akbar Nateq-Noori, the Speaker of the Iranian parliament, a staunch conservative backed by the country's most powerful political machine. He even had the implicit support of Iran's Supreme Leader, the Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, successor of the Ayatullah Khomeini...
...understand. Education is a setup for ridicule. Old people stuck in place deliver old information to new people about to move up and out. The adamant vs. the supple. The strait-laced vs. the unlaced, over whom they exert a flimsy and temporary authority. Every classroom is an implicit smirk. Write what you feel; I feel that I am going to sit here and accept whatever that tired old bird dishes out, and then I'm going out on the green to toss a Frisbee, flirt, chomp on an Arch Deluxe, live. I'm going to leave...
...concert Saturday evening was a success in that it under-scored the continuity of the Jazz Band's 25 years. As the undergraduate Jazz Bands performed on the stage of Sanders Theater for a near-capacity crowd teeming with band alumni of various ages, one could sense the implicit understanding linking those who had once played on the stage and those who now occupied it. Enthralled audience members seemed hardly to notice the passing of time during the three-hour long concert, aside from their fruitless squirming to find a semi-comfortable position on Sanders' cruel benches...