Word: tacitly
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Thirdly, there are numerous examples of boycotting or picketing individual theatres, or tacit agreements that certain films should not be shown. It is fair to say that a theatre owner has the right to show what he wants. But on the other hand, a movie as a work of art depends upon its exhibitors for its very life, and should have the same right of dissemination that printed literature has. If there is a substantial demand for a certain film, it should not be squelched by the disapproval of a minority, or even ideally, of a majority...
...Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek huddled with his Cabinet in a six-hour closed-door session one night last week. The urgent problem: what to do about the sudden emergence of a dubious, rabble-rousing political movement called the November Front, which had won the tacit support of one of the most powerful men in Brazil, War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott...
...deny the fact of a palace rift. This being so, Dutch editors were discreetly doubtful of the wisdom of putting out any statement at all, but government authority answered that the need for it involved not the public but the principals themselves. It was, in a sense, a tacit admission that difficulties still exist in the House of Orange-Nassau...
...hour visit, Sherman Adams reported on the preparations by the convention-arrangements committee for a short three-or-four-day convention, noting, to Ike's satisfaction, that Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, will be the keynote speaker. But the tacit ban on politics by all hands until the chief himself broached the subject jarred sharply with optimistic Republican organization insistence on the status quo. The indication: a realistic Chief Executive once again was testing himself against the job ahead...
...many cities where their plurality did not win them control, the Christian Democrats and their coalition partners will be forced to make alliances, either tacit or actual. To most left-of-center Christian Democrats, alliances with the Monarchists and Neo-Fascists are distasteful...