Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty regards it as implicit in the language of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities that intense personal harassment of such character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others be regarded as an unacceptable violation of the personal rights on which the University is based...
...implicit models for today's demonstrations are the Vietnam demonstrations of the late 60's and early 70's that shocked college campuses and often, as at Harvard, forced tangible concessions from college officials. It was in one sense easier to demonstrate then, because it was not such a seemingly abstract issue--your friends were being drafted and killed...
...fond of telling us that a decade ago students began to march to the drumbeat of the selfishness song, which goes something like: "No more sweaty rallies, no more LSD: Society owes a turbo Porsche to me, me, me." Even if we accept this colossal generalization with its implicit comparison to our generation, we must still wonder whether our immediate forebears weren't more honest than we: at least they didn't make the fitful pretense of social consciousness...
...denied that Peking had received the sort of no-nuke pledge that had been denied to Wellington. "Our policy on ship visits remains the same," said Spokesman Edward Djerejian. "We will neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on board our ships." But sources conceded that an implicit understanding had probably been reached...
Furthermore, it is demeaning to Blacks to state that they only have white friends in order to insure future financial success. For someone who associates Blackness with honesty and virtue, Mr. Farley certainly portrays us as a group of economic mercenaries. Implicit in his argument is the assertion that Blacks can only have true friendships with one another; friendships with non-Blacks, he suggests, are motivated purely by self interest. While we recognize that racism continues to plague our country, we feel that the best way to overcome this evil is through interracial association. Such contact, rather than resulting...