Word: overtness
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...early '60s, the central characters in both Advise and Consent and The Best Man had their political careers ruined by past homosexual experiences. But even last year, some American film makers were still shy about dealing with the subject too openly: Richard Brooks eliminated most of the overt homosexual overtones from the characters of Dick and Perry in In Cold Blood. Screen Writers Robert Benton and David Newman abandoned their original notion of Clyde Barrow's relationship with C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde...
...proposal to which Mendès-France quickly agreedèand announced his own intention to run for the presidency in the elections. Other politicians took up the cry for the formation of "a government of public salvation." The Communists, who until then had refrained from making any overt attempt to replace De Gaulle, whose foreign policy has Moscow's hearty approval, began dickering with Mitterrand for portfolios in his cabinet...
While there is disagreement on the extent of overt racism, black athletes, like the rest of the black community, point to the university's failure to provide black culture courses as the main indication of Harvard's unwillingness to change. "This is latent racism," Stargel said...
...theater, as in today's urban society, homosexuals have abandoned discretion and invisibility. For better or worse, homosexuality and the gay-life subculture are becoming acceptable as dramatic themes, to be treated with the same frankness as heterosexual relations. Probably the most overt example of this trend is The Boys in the Band, which opened off-Broadway last week. Neither patronizing nor proselytizing, it coolly takes the milieu of the homosexual for granted. It is also a funny, sad and honest play about a set of mixed-up human beings who happen to be deviates...
...rural South, McGill admits, has come along much more slowly. Coercion and overt oppression are still the rule in the rural Georgia which sent restaurant owner, axe-handle distributor, confused and frightened Lester Maddox to the statehouse in 1966. And the Wallace phenomenon, he concedes, is a very serious and dangerous malignancy. "Wallace speaks the new 'Magnolia Mouthwash.' He doesn't use the old words, just the new words, the code words," McGill explains...