Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word "love" runs like a refrain through Bouche's conversation; it is implicit in his art. Humility shapes his art, too. The fact that he can never match the overflowing vigor of a Rubens or a Picasso does not bother him. He is content with painting quiet, tender little pictures as beautifully...
...four things, instead of something about one. Accent is on the dispensing of economically useful information (sound Marxist doctrine, that!) and not at all upon the development of the mind as a thinking unit. Thus, the American student inclines to statements that are dogmatic and unoriginal: he has an implicit and almost mediaeval trust in Authority...
...Guide claims to present an accurate picture of student opinion. This claim is not alone explicit; it is implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions...
Seventy-seven varsity athletes were satisfied with the present club, though a few suggested possible improvements. Some were worried about the separation of athletes implicit in the whole Varsity Club system, while some others felt that the new building would be a means of bringing athletes closer to the Houses...
Three questions promptly arise. Who is to determine whether a given consequence is desirable or undesirable? And who is to determine whether a given act brings credit or discredit to the University? Should public opinion be allowed to affect the University's relations with its extra-curricular activities? Implicit in the proposed rules is the belief that this determination should be made by the Dean's Office, with the advice of the Student Council. This is certainly a far cry from the traditional College attitude towards extra-curricular activities. Not only is the new approach administratively far more complicated than...