Word: overtness
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...women. (How about a husband who misses the old-fashioned fights-and the making up? Why not a little less discretion about the sexuality of a grown-up Barbie?) Or perhaps the opposite tack should have been tried. The piece could have been an exercise in pure terror, avoiding overt social comment. The broad early hints about what is going on here would then build realistic suspense...
HARVARD HAS NOT been as overt as the city council in answering the Kennedy arm-twisting. Immediately after Smith's announcement, Cambridge Mayor, Walter J. Sullivan, corralled four other councilors, and couched in the rhetoric of getting more Cambridge people involved in the task force, the mayor drafted a resolution to remove the agency from the city manager's office and dump it in his own lap. Although Sullivan didn't get his way, he did gain the right to stock the task force with twelve people, possibly people aligned with his view favoring the museum. And when Sullivan goes...
...inequities are nothing new, but the lack of attention we're giving them is. The New Mood on Campus that the media touted in 1972 is now firmly entrenched. Most of the overt resistance to the United States's war-making machine is gone, or at least in hiding. The people-oriented movements it seems to have spawned--urging equal rights for women, blacks, the poor--are in hibernation, if not retreat...
...despite such an overt attempt to trade capital support for the support of those in the Capitol, the outlook for the passage of Ford's economic package is not bright. Republican Congressman Barber Conable, a former Harvard Institute of Politics Fellow, has expressed dissatisfaction with the Ford proposals, and House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman has predicted that Congress will not accept Ford's regressive fuel tax plan as is. Nor have the people shown any inclination to accept the image of Ford as a kindly Santa Claus, dispensing gifts to his little children. In a study conducted...
...Bowyer, Donham and members of local neighborhood groups have been unable to unite on recommendations for what the final draft of the Harvard report should contain. According to persons from several community groups, the present interim report contains no overt clues as to the direction Harvard will take in its future development. Bowyer said he found it difficult to react to a report that contains "many abstractions and an assortment of alternatives...