Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been said that no matter where Aalto worked, he carried Finland in his bones, just as James Joyce carried Ireland. Perhaps so. It is a pity for the rest of the world that so much of Aalto"s work is in remote Finland. For a serious lesson is implicit in all his work: great architecture can be for people. His countrymen understood that. They would crowd into tour buses, pass by his office and proudly listen to the guide say, "That is where Alvar Aalto works...
...page, he describes Willis Reed pondering "how a rabbit does it," and on the following, he sums up the 1973 championship with the old saw, "Vicariously experiencing the victory can't compare to being Number One." The maudlin cliches of the sports world are not geared toward the cynicism implicit in Bradley's off-beat anecdotes. There is a contradiction between his seasoned insight into professional basketball and the adolescent spirit of his language. With this parrot squawking denials on his shoulder, Bradley's Life on the Run seems not as desperate as he tries to make...
...feel that this increasingly liberal attitude toward abortion indicates a dangerous lack of concern for human life, and cannot condone the use of general funds, with the implicit moral assent involved, for this purpose. Kathryn E. Donovan '77 Constance Mitchell '76 Leslie J. Olin...
...American dispersion are not the products of the new Jewish vision of individuality as Howe suggests, but of the old American vision of homogeneity. America is the true protagonist in this, and indeed any immigrant account, working to break barriers and make everyone seem the same. The implicit point, which Howe fails to make, is not that the Jews chose wrongly when they accepted the American vision of success, it is that there was never any choice...
...Syrians were denying him 4,000 guns and 7 million rounds of ammunition that had been donated by the Egyptian government and confiscated when they reached Damascus en route to Beirut. Finally, Assad persuaded Arafat to put pressure on Jumblatt to accept another ceasefire. The persuasions contained an implicit warning that if the war continued the Lebanese-based Palestinians might lose Syrian support and supplies...