Word: overtness
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Walzer agreed that it would be difficult to draw guidelines by which recruiters would be forbidden on campus. "One can make a better case for overt cooperation with the Selective Service than for covert cooperation with the CIA," he said. "It gets harder to draw the line if we include each agencies as the Peace Corps...
...years ago, when I was fired from the Boston schools, I spoke of conditions that I found there in a tone of outraged innocence. Today I still have plenty of outrage, but I no longer am innocent. After two years of teaching the corruption, lies and overt racism of the people who dominate the Boston School Committee, and who hold supervisory positions within its administration, it is quite impossible to feel innocent or wide-eyed...
...other schools, overt racism has been common. Teachers new to the system are appalled by the conversations, by the style of easy and automatic condescension, by the casual assumption of inherent inferiority in the black children and in their lives and families...
Between Independence Day and Labor Day, a profound malaise overcame the American people. A kind of psychological Asian flu, it has as its overt symptoms bewilderment about...
...destroyed the sanctuaries in mountain and jungle that the enemy so long enjoyed. On the brink of falling to the Communists when the U.S. buildup began in mid-1965, South Viet Nam is now a citadel of sovereignty that even Hanoi admits cannot be taken by overt aggression. In that sense, the conventional war is no longer a contest. "The U.S. can defeat us in positional warfare," is the blunt admission of North Vietnamese Lieut. General Nguyen Van Vinh, deputy chief of staff in Hanoi...