Word: latently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Latent Snobbism...
...politicking was spirited and added to, not detracted from Conductor Samuel's "to, for, and by the people" approach to music. The latent snobbism reflected in your article is precisely what turns off so many potential supporters of fine music...
Yalies, noted Harvard philosopher George Santayana in 1892, "are like passengers in a ship or fellow countrymen abroad; their sense of common interests and common emotions overwhelms all latent antiphathies. They live in a sort of primitive brotherhood, with a ready enthusiasm for every good or bad project, and a contagious good-humor...
...wage and price freeze has done anything for the American character, it has unleashed a streak of latent vigilantism. Righteous consumers are scouring supermarkets, restaurants and even football stadiums for evidence of violations of the freeze...
...burden for Bergman is doubled by his need to communicate the meaning of Alma's pain. Upheaval and repression sometimes go unquestioned because of the rhetorical baggage that goes with them. Bergman's way of exposing the content of human conflict is anti-ideological, but his moral anger bears latent political meaning. He reduces a state of warfare to the level of personal violence, where it can be explored in detail, and views it as the last measure to which frustrated people resort when their associations are blocked for the sake of someone's self-gratification...