Word: overtness
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Regardless of the outcome, there would be virtually no way under a "non-discriminatory" policy for anyone to prove overt sex discrimination in Harvard's admissions policies...
...Committee obtained no proof that the discrepancies resulted from overt discrimination, but a Committee study done two years ago found no differences between the economic needs or academic performance of graduate men and women at Harvard...
...need, in this case for self-expression, remains. It not only lies embedded in some psychophysical memory state, but it affects the person's overt behavior and his mental and physical health. The build-up of unexpressed needs produces tension, the human's natural defense against feeling the pain of being unloved for what he is--a person with typical human needs in the particular form in which he expresses them. The neurotic no longer feels his need. His disease is neurosis, the crippling of feeling...
...through his pretensions, but she does not make the effort: no Stanford graduate who has taken to frying eggs and making beds wants to tell her son that he should abandon his dreams. All of this becomes obvious almost from the time Pat arrives and begins making an overt effort to "understand" her son's patent inadequacies (like his helplessness in seeking a job). For the remainder of the hour, the point is ground home with unbearable repitition...
...Myth can set up its meanings almost anywhere: because it works by making form and meaning coincide, it can even give meaning to the meaningless and the absurd, as it does in surrealism. The only language which is safe from its infiltration, according to Barthes, is the language of overt intentions--political language...