Word: overtness
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...that neat that Bill is going. He must take it more seriously than we do.' My mother was having to drag us there," recalls Patty Howe Criner, a friend of Clinton's since elementary school. On Oct. 17, 1956, when he was 10 years old, Clinton made the overt profession of his personal commitment to Christ, as required by his Baptist denomination, and was publicly baptized by being immersed in water. A year later, he asked a Sunday- school teacher to take him 50 miles into Little Rock so he could listen to the Rev. Billy Graham. When...
Many Arab and Arab-American students say stereotypes are the worst problem they face at Harvard. Though students interviewed last week said they had not encountered overt discrimination in their interpersonal relationships, they said the images perpetuated in publications recently have cast a racist pall over the campus...
...Kremlin. "Short of an official declaration that Ruslan Khasbulatov ((Yeltsin's nemesis)) has been a CIA spy for years, our ability to influence events is very small," says Paul Goble, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington. Others, like former CIA Director Robert Gates, say overt Western interference on behalf of Yeltsin ! could be counterproductive. "He is vulnerable to criticism that he is doing the West's bidding," says Gates...
Frank S. Jones '50 says he only recently has been able to confront the racist attitudes--both subtle and overt--that he faced as one of only three or four Black students in his class...
...Black undergraduates interviewed last week said they have not experienced overt incidents of racism. Still, some say racism persists...