Word: implicit
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Underlying the Kremlin's dilemma is Gulag's unanswerable challenge to the authority, indeed the legitimacy of the post-Stalin regime. This challenge is implicit in Solzhenitsyn's call for the punishment of the more than 250,000 people that he estimates are guilty of the crimes he details in his book. Responsibility reaches far beyond former concentration-camp guards. By implication, myriad Soviet bureaucrats in the entire present-day chain of command are culpable. Recalling the punishment inflicted on prisoners like himself, Solzhenitsyn writes of those accountable: "We must be generous and not shoot them...
...They are implicit in his play and made explicit by a fine cast. Jane Alexander is exceptional in conveying grief, shock and wifely possessiveness. And Moriarty, Richardson, and John Ramsey as a one-night pickup, never take an emotionally false step...
...that Gerald Ford has been sworn in, Congress must accelerate its moves toward the impeachment of President Nixon. At the core of our democratic process is the right to make a choice. Implicit in this concept is the right to make the wrong choice. However, to continue to be a great nation we must show that we have the guts to right our wrongs...
Zero for Conduct. The Europeans were almost equally upset by Washington's implicit argument that the U.S. somehow knows best. The U.S., said the Frankfurter Rundschau, has a peculiar definition of partnership, "namely, that one side makes the decisions and the other obeys." Added the Sunday Times of London: "It has never been a term of NATO membership that European governments should support the Zionist imperatives weighing upon American Presidents." The paper was referring to the common European belief that because of the Jewish vote, the U.S. has been blindly one-sided in its support of Israel...
Yarrow's concert Sunday and his album That's Enough For Me rest on an implicit assumption that an effective 1973 folksinger must cast his visions in a rock context, resurrecting even fifties rock as a kind of new folk music. The length and number of standing ovations Yarrow received Sunday--especially the fervent sing-along he started was a bluesy version of Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"--suggests he is right...