Word: overtness
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...Poiltics have been an institutionalized form of violence and the political body, the instrument protecting those institutions; it is the body which represents an overt violence, becoming more and more the gun as the institutions themselves are stripped away. Because the institutions of American politics have been challenged in such a way as to force the protecting body to employ the use of nearly every gun at its disposal, anyone wishing to make a political statement against that body had best make it with a gun; the statement itself should be made with a gun, not merely backed...
...theme of the book is Heinlein's version of how to be a woman. It would be presumptous of me to attempt to analyze this; perhaps, if it were worth it, a woman could deal with it. But the male chauvinism in it is so overt, so crude, and so disgusting that it is hard to imagine anyone being influenced by it. What is distressing is that this seems not to be merely the newest of his absurd philosophical stances. Judging by the construction of the rest of the work, it would seem, rather, that Heinlein's mind...
...also part documentary. The movie was shot in a French town near the site of the Lascaux caves, and many scenes include glimpses of locals whose faces are ingratiating. Kes, a British film directed by Ken Loach, is also part documentary, and the delicate way in which it mixes overt fiction with pure reportage is admirable. Kes is a kestrel hawk; the bird is caught and trained by a 15-year-old boy, and the movie is as much about freedom and repression than anything else. The boy is the no-good-nick of his class at school; the standard...
...does there now seem to be a conscious policy of discrimination on the Center's part against leftist thinkers; the radical approach to foreign policy is a new and highly rare development within social science, and it is the paucity of this approach, rather than overt antagonism to it, that probably accounts for the virtual nonexistence of radicals within the Center's confines...
Courts in Front. Ending overt discriminatory practices in existing and planned accommodations-the goal of most open-housing statutes-is primarily an enforcement problem. Another, more subtle obstacle is the exclusionary suburban zoning ordinance. It often has the effect of blocking construction of low-and moderate-cost housing. Unlike blatant Jim Crow barriers, zoning makes a difficult legal target. Its legitimate purpose-to allow a community to plan its land use rationally-has been upheld as proper and constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court...