Word: overtly
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...primary objection to concentration in theater is that it is direct and overt training for a profession, exactly analogous in this respect to a major in journalism or physical education. Harvard has never encouraged narrow preparation for law or medicine and it should not do so for the stage. Mr. Titcomb argues that theater, in embracing many arts, conforms to the spirit of General Education. It seems to me, on the contrary, that the theater is a hierarchy and combine of specialties whose interrelations are strictly pragmatic, designed for efficiency in production, not for artistic cross-fertilization. Furthermore, the theater...
...essential issue, said the appellate court's majority opinion, written by Judge Marion C. Matthes, was "whether overt public resistance, including mob protest, constitutes sufficient cause to nullify an order of the federal court." To that question the Circuit Court gave a stern answer: "The time has not yet come in these United States when an order of a federal court must be whittled away, watered down or shamefully withdrawn in the face of violent and unlawful acts of individual citizens...
...sought to encourage its legitimate development. He sought to create conditions of stability so that Britain and the U.S. might withdraw their troops while retaining their commercial access to the area. He recognized that while the West had no intention of securing its economic interests indefinitely by the overt use of force, neither did it intend to be deprived of those interests by force...
...majority of the other members of the University may not really become a subject for debate. The people who oppose his stand are not going to deny him the right to a personal opinion, and, as one rather pompously put it, "We haven't caught him in any overt act" to advance his religious ideas within the University. It is a question for the future as to whether the President's ideas lead in his mind to University policies that will be-4This visit to President Pusey in Massachusetts Hall by a group of prominent members of the Faculty clearly...
...from actually proceeding to a Russian target without personal orders from the President-Russia found no supporting votes for its accusation in the eleven-nation Security Council. Arkady Sobolev was compelled to withdraw his resolution, a display of ineptness rare in recent Soviet diplomacy. ¶By putting too much overt pressure on Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Khrushchev last week drove Yugoslavia to a public challenge of Soviet primacy in Eastern Europe (see below). In the process, Khrushchev also ineptly stirred up the ticklish relations between Russia and Poland. Fortnight ago. in deference to the knowledge that the U.S.S.R. could...