Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some pictures are put-ons that seem to plead for a tacit agreement with their audience: what is to be viewed is beneath contempt, therefore it is beyond criticism. Disarmed, audiences are presumably free to enjoy the movie in the same way they appreciate the sheer ghastliness of Mrs. Miller's wobbly warbling or the fruity falsetto of Tiny Tim. Two current examples come from...
...perhaps 1,500 families, would not state whether there was a policy on family planning or not. She was extremely defensive and would not even discuss whether her social workers, when asked, would refer the woman to her family doctor. I asked whether, in lieu of policy, a tacit prohibition arose; she would not answer...
...student behavior," then cited the fact that "illegitimate births in the U.S. have tripled in the past 25 years." Partly to blame are "college officials who, by allowing men and women to visit each other in dorms, have encouraged intimacy both on and off campus, and 'are actually giving tacit consent to premarital sex.' . . . But Blaine saw brighter prospects ahead. He reported on a poll of Harvard undergraduates, most of whom indicated that they hope their future children will live by a stricter moral code than they have...
...gear up for the coming campaign, Rockefeller named Emmet John Hughes, 47, former speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower, Time Inc. staffer and Newsweek columnist, and three others to his "personal staff." He also gave his tacit approval to the formation of a blue-chip Rockefeller for President Committee whose members include four Senators, four Governors, five former Republican national chairmen and 14 noted businessmen. Its chairman: Cummins Engine Co. Chairman J. Irwin Miller, 58, of Columbus, Ind., a former head of the National Council of Churches and an archetype of the public-spirited businessman (he helped John F. Kennedy talk businessmen...
President Johnson's decision to authorize only 24,500 more Americans for Viet Nam, rather than the 135,000 to 200,000 that Westmoreland had wanted, thus represents a tacit de-escalation of the war by the U.S. Since Lyndon Johnson has no intention of handing over South Viet Nam to the Communists, the new strategy depends on ARVN's ability to learn to fill the combat boots now being worn...