Word: implicit
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...forcible confinement of an individual and serious, ongoing obstruction and harassment-makes it impossible for any part of the University so treated to continue to function. Such a threat to any part of the University is an implicit threat to all of it. And, even in cases where such tactics may accelerate a needed change, the entire University pays a great price in the deterioration of the fundamental relationships between its members...
Most black students, however, felt that an acceptance of at least the broad aims of their demands was implicit in the Cox-Lee agreement. One black student said that the aim of taking over University Hall had been to "get the University to take our demands seriously. Apparently they have." Another said that this is only one step in the campaign, and that OBU is prepared to take further action if necessary...
...plays that followed The Constant Prince (TIME, Oct. 24) were Akropolis and Apocalypsis cum Figuris. Akropolis contains a staggering irony in its title, for it is actually about Auschwitz. The title is an implicit judgment on a civilization that plummets from its zenith to its lowest depths. The inmates of the death camp spend most of the evening dumping each other in and out of wheelbarrows, piecing together homely sections of stovepipe and finally, one by one, entering a crematorium. The playgoer's knowledge that the pipes that the members of the cast have strung about the stage will...
Viewing homosexuality as a "condition" uncovers our implicit belief that a natural part of self for many (perhaps most) men is bad because it does not fit our myth of the "normal" man. We live in a world where a man may kill another man but he may not kiss another man on the television screen viewed by our children. Natural urges thus emerge in ugly, distorted form...
...Implicit behind abortion and birth control laws is society's fear and moral condemnation of "sexual promiscuity." The moral code implied by the laws is clear. Unmarried women are not supposed to engage in sexual inter-course. Women who cannot afford or are uninformed about birth control should not sleep with their husbands if they want to avoid having children. Any violator of the code is on her own. outside the protection of the law. If she dies in the hands of a quack, it's too bad but it's her fault. She has to suffer for her wrongdoing...