Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus The Flowers of the Forest is interesting on two counts: first for its skilled anecdotes of men of genius, and second for its implicit psychological portrait of a pacifist. Unlike those whose lot is but to do and die, the pacifist has to reason why. Hence his reminiscences tend to be much wittier than old soldiers' tales...
...augment grandeur. The Suez Canal, by reason of its internationalized character, both in law and in fact, is the last place wherein to seek the means of gaining national triumphs." He made passing reference to Nasser's much quoted Philosophy of the Revolution (see box) and its implicit threat of an Arab withholding of oil, "the sinew of material civilization without which machines would cease to function." To guard against such threats, Dulles proposed an international board to run the canal...
...readers of the biography may be startled to find some very French notions of Lafayette's role in the Revolutionary War; e.g., there is an implicit assumption that it was primarily a French-British war, and that only the loss of Canada to the British ensured that the British would lose the Thirteen Colonies to the Americans (because the colonists no longer feared French domination). Even more at odds with the U.S. notion, the French biographers insist that Freemasonry played a big role in the 1776 upheaval. Lafayette, they report, was distrusted by Washington until he became a member...
...leaders. Down they went in their hip boots, sloshing around in a swamp of doubletalk, and throwing little bits of misinformation behind them, like cracker crumbs, for those who tried to follow them. But they were not very helpful guides for those who anxiously sought answers to the questions implicit in Khrushchev's historic attack on Stalin at the 20th Party Congress (TIME, June...
...modal progressions, cast in big thick chords insensitively connected. There is nothing particularly cerebral in his style. Little is said. The same applies to the Canons. There-part canon at the unison or octave is difficult to write, since the harmonies during the imitations are somewhat limited to those implicit in the statements. The problem of gaining tonal variety is hardly met in Austin's canons; their only virtue is smooth voice writing...