Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While students said that racism, whether overt or covert, has always been a problem, this year has seen several incidents that have dramatized the problem and have motivated students and administrators to take action...
...abroad. In El Salvador, he met with President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who has confessed that he too watches the Swaggart TV show. In Chile, he met Dictator Augusto Pinochet and later urged his audience in Santiago to "pray for General Pinochet and his beautiful wife." Swaggart usually avoids overt politicking in his Latin American sermons and disclaims partisanship. But the Rev. Jaime Wright, a U.S. Presbyterian working in Brazil, agreeing with Roman Catholic critics, charges that Swaggart and like-minded Evangelicals are giving "uncritical support" to oppressive right-wing regimes...
Unlike football, golf has no heritage of slipperiness. Offensive linemen are encouraged to think of undetected holding as an art form. Similarly, a baseball outfielder is expected to hold trapped balls aloft just as if they were caught. In baseball, overt cheating -- scuffing balls, corking bats -- brings only winks, while the real appreciation is reserved for breaches in the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play. Billy Martin waited for George Brett to hit a homer before objecting to the pine tar on his bat. The old Brooklyn pitcher Clyde King used to twist his cap slightly askew in hopes that...
...Wicker, an articulate spokesman for the anti-contra view, put the case for containment: "Washington could state plainly that it will not tolerate any Soviet military base in Nicaragua, or any overt or covert attempt by Nicaragua to attack its neighbors." Now, what exactly does "will not tolerate" mean? One cannot just say it. Carter declared the Soviet brigade in Cuba intolerable. Reagan declared the crackdown on Polish Solidarity intolerable. And the intolerable endured, despite the brave words. To be serious about containing Sandinista subversion -- overt and covert -- will mean vigilance, resources and risk. It will mean everything from pouring...
...revealed our belief that the only way to go was to learn as much as we could working for whites, and then go out on our own. Dillon Read, Kidder Peabody, and Merrill Lynch were the enemy, buttresses of the subtle institutional racism that everyone keeps saying has replaced overt racism as the real problem facing Blacks now. It was taken as a given that within the corporate structure Blacks were never going to rise high enough to achieve real financial independence, or get Panasonic multivision systems. Well, maybe those...