Word: overtness
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Soviet Russia is still a Sparta, not an Athens. It has no freedom in the Western sense, but dissatisfaction is becoming overt in a way that it never dared be before...
...Mahon was opposed on principle to Vinson's order-and-direct move; but Mahon, a cautious fellow, declined to fight Vinson openly. Instead, two of the subcommittee's ablest Republican members, Michigan's Gerald R. Ford and Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, threw themselves into the overt fight against Vinson. They enlisted the support of Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck-who had never quite forgiven Vinson for helping round up Southern votes to liberalize the conservative House Rules Committee...
Almost all the deviates in the film are fine fellows-well dressed, well spoken, sensitive, kind. The only one who acts like an overt invert turns out to be a detective...
...hear what has happened to his schöne, weltbekannte melody, Papa Liszt no doubt would be writhing, not twisting. And he would have plenty of company-solid German doctors who warn against "accelerating one's hips and legs in opposite directions," parents and churchmen who deplore "the overt sexual implications of the dance." But some German intellectuals defend the twist. It is, says one Munich psychiatrist, "a proper cure for working off frustrations." And a psychiatrist in Berlin, where the cold war takes the rap for all sorts of aberrations, sees it as a byproduct of an anxious...
...whites. Because they are barred from eating out in many places, notes Ebony Publisher John H. Johnson, Negroes spend more per capita for eating and drinking at home than whites do. Many Negroes have the income to rent or buy better housing than they now occupy, but discriminatory practices, overt or otherwise, often close off this avenue for spending. In search of ways to achieve status, Negroes are very conscious of quality and brand names, drive a Cadillac or Imperial if possible, and pay more than whites on the same income level for their shoes and clothing. (Pepsi...