Word: overtness
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...would differ from the writer, however, in assessing the role of the liberal or sympathetic white. This role is often complex. He does not respect the colored race genuinely, because it does not command respect. Given this, it is natural that he be smug about his eschewal of overt discrimination. He passes up the latter for the luxury of apparent charity. Conscience is the motivation only because real respect is absent. He will not surrender his smugness; there is no reason...
...scrutiny is largely a waste of time. Steady pressure from Washington, including the McCarran Act, which requires U.S. Communist publications to be labeled as propaganda, deprives them of overt support from Moscow. Thus abandoned, the Worker, etc., seem to be drifting rudderless in Moscow's wake. Gus Hall, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party and a regular Kremlin visitor, was usually good for a navigational fix-until the State Department yanked his passport...
...letter applying for admission to the University of Mississippi. The university fended Meredith off in the courts, but once the legal battle was lost, they were prepared to submit and let Meredith enroll. Then Mississippi's fumbling Governor Ross Barnett interfered (TIME. Oct. 5). Barnett's overt defiance of the law provided a cause to rally around, not only for Ole Miss students, but for racists all over Mississippi and in other Southern states...
Barnett's overt defiance confronted President Kennedy with a grim dilemma. He could not let Barnett get away with persisting in his defiance; that would invite defiance all over the South, subverting not only the Negroes' progress toward justice but the entire federal system. But the use of federal force against a state also damages the federal system. And as practical Democrats, John and Robert Kennedy had to reflect upon the prospect that military intervention in Mississippi might be politically disastrous for the Democratic Party in the South...
Whitney A. Shoemaker of the Associated Press: Mr.President, coupling this statement with the one of last week, at what point do you determine that the buildup in Cuba has lost its defensive guise to become offensive? Would it take an overt act? A.: I think if you read last week's statement and the statement today-I've made it quite clear, particularly in last week's statement when we talked about the presence of offensive military missile capacity or development of military bases, other indications, which I gave last week. All these would, of course, indicate...