Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Douglas had high words of praise for Senators Kennedy and Johnson. She called Kennedy "explicit and forthright on matters of disarmament and nuclear testing." Calling the issue of survival the most important this fall, Mrs. Douglas based her praise for the Massachusetts senator on the feeling that he is better able to cope with the great responsibility of preventing nuclear...
...Malcolm, Ohio-born James Purdy, 37, dealt with nightmare subjects in a complex, brooding style that often baffled readers. This time, in the manner of a futurist painter determined to show doubters he can be a master of realistic drawing if he chooses, Purdy uses a simple, controlled and explicit prose to achieve his eerie effects. Whether he is being opaque or clear, Novelist Purdy peoples his books with troubling and troubled human beings, proves himself a writer of considerable power and impressive originality...
...Scarborough Conference rejected that policy in explicit terms, overruling it by a vote of 3,339,000 to 3,042,000. When it passed the motion of the Transport Workers, a left-wing union led by the voluble Frank Cousin's, Labour in fact committed itself to the rejection of "any defense policy based on the threat or use of strategic or tactical nuclear weapons...
...sounds. Plays are not "for" audiences in the sense in which rings are for fingers or America is for the Americans. The relation is not one of possession or even one of pleaser and pleased: to Brecht, for example, whose plays are "for" audiences in the most explicit sense, the last thing de- sired was that the audience should be "pleased" in any fashion Broadway understands. The playwright's task and the actor's and the director's and the designer's is to hold that necessary attention, not to gratify it in other ways. And to learn to hold...
...anti-fascist rallies of the early 40's were, in philosophical implication, far closer to meetings protesting the arms race. In both cases the obvious danger was widespread destruction, the explicit question was war. But a man attending meetings of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies was ready to fight not abstain; it was clear what the government should do. Horrified by Nazi conquests, he knew that neutrality was an impossible position, that Lend-Lease was essential to prevent Europe from being altogether crushed. In this case, the desire was to lash out at a nation...