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Many alumnae said they saw Knowles' letter as a tacit appeal for donations, adding that they had not received such letters before...
...most newsworthy--was Adolf Hitler. TIME had a very striking photograph of Adolf--not deifying him but making him look very respectable. It began to worry the hell out of me. I did not see how TIME could put this picture on the cover without conveying some kind of tacit endorsement. In December, I stumbled on a fine lithograph of a Catherine wheel with naked bodies hanging from it, and down in one corner a little man playing a hymn of hate on an organ, and the man was Hitler. By the time I found it, Harry was away...
Others say they oppose Jiang's visit because it implies a tacit endorsement of the Chinese government...
...attend the same influential churches--ties that produced what Marion Orr, assistant professor of political science at Duke University, calls a powerful "bond of personalism" that goes a long way toward explaining the reluctance of the system to fire poor performers and its resistance to reform. "There was a tacit decision made back in the early '70s that the school district would become the black agency of government," says Orr, who is black...
Watching a movie is a consensual act of sadomasochism. Sado: the people making the film are going through torture to entertain us. Maso: they are also torturing us with the whip of seductiveness and the clamps of suspense. In most films this unholy relationship is tacit; we suspend disbelief, forget our connivance in the covenant. The Game yanks this affair center screen and dares the viewer not only to think about it but also to feel it--feel creepy, feel scared, feel guilty...