Word: overt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people, the stifling of free movement, the indoctrinating effect of loudspeakers everywhere--in fact, all the techniques of modern totalitarianism--are well developed in the China, we are told. This government control is, oddly enough, more psychological than physical. Constant monitoring by neighborhood groups and workplace authorities usually make overt police and military brutality unnecessary. "The constant exposure to publilc scrutiny and peer pressure makes life in China like living in an army barrack," Butterfield writes...
...overt political themes of the Bible--what the Latin American theologians term God's "option for the oppressed"--is but one dimension of the radical message inherent in the Gospels, however. Even more, it is the disturbing, moving words of the Sermon on the Mount. "But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." (Matthew 5:441) that suggest a change in lifestyle and commitment more revolutionary than anything Mark ever imagined...
...Communism is fascism," Sontag told a New York City rally called last month to demonstrate left-wing support for Poland's Solidarity movement. "Not only is fascism and overt military rule probably the destiny of all Communist countries, but Communism is in itself a variant, the most successful variant, of fascism. Fascism with a human face." The left "did not have ears" for this truth, she told the sometimes booing and hissing crowd-composed of about 1,300 left-wing activists, among them Singer Pete Seeger and Novelist E.L. Doctorow-because of its haughty reluctance to be associated with...
...fact, were most of the acting not so fine, the play would be crippled by its overt bias toward faith over reason. Because Geraldine Page and Amanda Plummer perform so magnificently, Pielmeler's faulty script sails along smoothly...
...Mubarak what he wants in development aid and shading his request for military aid, with perhaps some small increase. Cairo, however, does not want the price of its requests for aid to be pressure to sign an unsatisfactory agreement with Israel on Palestinian autonomy or, for that matter, other overt concessions that would make Egypt lose credibility in the Arab world. Says one Egyptian observer: "Many Egyptians think America stamped Sadat as the American stooge. America should not try to do that with Mubarak. That is dangerous for him and bad for America...