Word: overtness
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...Foursome, which was written before Alpha Beta, Whitehead focuses on four Liverpool youngsters barely out of their teens. In the present off-Broadway production, the setting and characters have been shifted to the outskirts of Galveston, Texas, and the transition has been effected with astonishing flexibility and no overt loss of authenticity...
...such crucial problems. Writers such as Llosa and Marquez recognize that economic and cultural subjugation go hand in hand. They confront issues of culture imperialism because they know that dissension in popular art from the encroachment of a foreign culture is as necessary as political opposition to more overt acts of foreign domination...
...Overt Step. The operation had been meticulously planned. According to police, the first overt step was taken two days before the breakout when a young man with an American accent, calling himself "Mr. Leonard," arranged to rent an Alouette II helicopter from Dublin's Irish Helicopters Ltd. It would be used, he explained, to photograph historical sites near Dublin...
...more Imperial prototype. Yet there is a brand of unresponsive Love and of Inert Concern which blesses no more, and damages no less, than straight-forward cynicism. Quiet compassion and relaxed (i.e., controllable) self-accusation are no less evil in their end-results than those more blatant actions of overt destruction executed by the redneck cop, ill-educated soldier, ice-cold corporation-leader. Different in temper, intellectual dispassion and self-exile of this kind is nonetheless the same in faithful service of an unjust social order. Less explicit in form, it is no less brutal in its operation. Covered with...
...said that although the U.S. has participated aggressively in other coups, there was inadequate evidence to prove overt American complicity...