Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...copied by the industry. Even if the new shows fail, the pilots that are ready to take their place are only more of the same. "We're in the jiggle stage," says Dorkin, "and all three networks will be running girlie shows next year. The sex is more implicit than actual in those shows, and the titles are usually more titillating than the shows themselves. But people do watch them...
...concrete sense of the class or the lives the film is pretending to examine. About all that can be said for "F.I.S.T." is that it does for the employees what junk like The Betsy did for the employers: trash their history and deny them the dignity that is implicit in being treated thoughtfully. Even-maybe especially-Jimmy Hoffa deserves better than to be shredded and reprocessed as a character in an unanimated pop fable...
...crafty Teng may actually be aiming at targets much higher than Mayor Wu and the others. Some wall posters, believed to have been written by Teng's backers, complain, for example, about striking "blows only at low levels and not on top." That could only be an implicit criticism of Chairman Hua and his policies in the post...
...lecture. Although I have read extensively on the subject, I will not pretend to be competent enough to debate the sociobiologists on their own grounds, nor did I attempt to do so in my piece. I did attempt, however, to expose some of the philosophical assumptions and value-judgements implicit in the study of how genes affect human behavior and society. Not simply judgments about the ultimate value of science--which most scientists seem to accept a priori, forgetting that science arose merely as a means of satisfying basic human needs--but judgments about the necessity of a field...
...effort was doomed from the start. The task force's very name--"Core Curriculum"--predisposed it not to accomplish anything very valuable, for implicit in the name are some fundamentally wrong assumptions about the nature of the modern educational experience...