Word: tacitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been an intermittent teacher all my life and when, as this year, I return to a university community. I find myself continually drawing comparisons, not comparisons between institutions but comparisons between something far more striking and instructive, comparisons between attitudes, tacit assumptions, the thought-world of students that I have known throughout the decades of my teachings: attitudes that we held in 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1930, attitudes that my students in the University of Chicago held in the '30s, and the attitudes which I see in the students around me this year. What a difference! What a difference...
...talking about tacit assumption, basic attitudes of so deep a level that they themselves are often not aware. But what they are aware of is that many of the concepts to which we older persons clung are to them irrelevant, irrelevant and irritating...
Eden, explained that the government had no intention of moving forces into Iran merely to protect oil installations, was reported to have won their tacit agreement. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison announced to a cheering House of Commons that Iran would be held responsible for the safety of British nationals, reported the dispatch of the 8,000-ton cruiser Mauritius, mounting nine 6-inch guns, to lie off the port of Abadan...
Three Assumptions. Wilder found that the graduates of 1951, "living in an age which has variously been called ... an Age of Upheaval, an Age of Anxiety, [have developed] resources that we in 1920 felt no need to call upon. Like species of the animal kingdom, they developed adaptations . . . three tacit assumptions . . . that we could not have grasped...
...Secondly, a whole new tacit assumption in relation to responsibility...