Word: overtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also too little organic development. The play never really advances from a kind of one-man show to any kind of social drama. To be sure, a negativist, no-exit attitude that shies away from moral crisis cannot develop very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony. Having shown how angry Jimmy can be, the play chiefly thereafter shows how personally irresistible he is. Perhaps a little concentration on human plight would have helped: it cuts deeper than Bohemian mess...
Under "sexual deviation" the authors include hostile, destructive sexual behavior toward others (sadism) or accepted from others (masochism), of the same or opposite sex, and all socially unacceptable forms of overt behavior such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, transvestism, homosexuality and bestiality. To understand the origin of these disorders, the two psychiatrists say, "the physician must face a disquieting but demonstrable fact: examples of all degrees of parental seduction of the child occur more commonly than it is comfortable to contemplate . . . The seduction may be as subtle as a caress or as blatant as actual incest...
...setting, Josh seems to pale to transparency, while Lexy glows with a passion that finally ignites Miri. At novel's end the cousins know that if they marry, it will be to each other. Only in this ending does Author Sourian, himself of Armenian descent, make an overt slip in his knowledgeable treatment of GreekAmerican customs, for consanguineous marriages up to the third cousin are regarded by the Orthodox Church as incest. At 24, Boston-born Peter Sourian is master of a style that is fresh, natural and ebullient. His characters define themselves in the language of the heart...
...documents filched from the McClellan committee files (TIME, March 25): 1) bribery, with a possible penalty of three years' imprisonment and a fine of three times the bribe total; 2) conspiracy, five years and $10,000; 3) obstruction of justice, five years and $5,000. Listed among 24 overt acts was one that indicated that Hoffa's consuming interest was more in what the McClellan committee might do to Dave Beck than in what it might hang on Jimmy Hoffa. Remarking an some of the committee papers that had been given him, Hoffa said that it looked...
Crying Halt. First to cry halt was respected, soft-voiced Mohammed Hatta, himself a Sumatran, who resigned as Vice President in December largely because of his chief's overt flirtation with the Communists...