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...might happen next: "If it becomes necessary to cut our dollar imports further, we shall be almost bound to have to cut raw materials. That will undoubtedly cause inconvenience." This characteristically deadpan remark was British understatement with a vengeance. One of the many things Cripps did not say-though implicit in what he said-is that one ultimate method of closing a trade gap is starving to death...
...people to behavior they can hardly control and but dimly understand. In one beautiful tale, The Babes in the Wood, O'Connor enters the shadow-world of painfully solemn, almost preternatural children who suffer from their elders' illicit affairs. O'Connor's bitterest stories are implicit denunciations of the sexual attitudes-or lack of them-of the prim, provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance on the parish priest, is tempted to tell her "it was Father Ring she should have married," he refrains because...
...Prince Otto von Bismarck saw what was implicit in Marx more clearly than Marx himself did. He noted the reluctance of Marxists to discuss the nature of the society for which they struggled. Said Bismarck in 1878: "If only I could find out what the future [Marxist] state . . . is like. We can only catch glimpses of it through the cracks. . . . If every man has to have his share allotted to him from above, we arrive at a kind of prison existence where everyone is at the mercy of the warders. And in our modern prisons the warder...
Congress's power to investigate was not explicit in the Constitution. But it has become implicit: the Supreme Court has held that the right to legislate carries with it the right to inquire into all business pertinent to the nation's welfare. Because such inquiries are not a judicial process, Congress also has the right to make its own rules...
...those who will lead the group during its first year of formal existence the answers lie implicit in proposals adopted by the panel and plenary sessions at Madison. They lie further in the determined implementation scheme. Two NSA vice-presidents will chair respectively the commissions on student domestic affairs. They will be fulltime salaried employees (along with the president, secretary, treasurer, and editor) required to leave school. In the reports of the convention delegates there are suggestions for specific projects sufficient to keep them busy far longer than their one-year term...