Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Demolishing a Window. Comic or sober, Author Powers cannot avoid that slight tinge of spiritual arrogance that is implicit in judging one's co-religionists-Catholic, Protestant or Jew-rather more severely than others, because they have ostensibly had a greater light while the rest of the world presumably flounders around any which way. The unrelaxed tension in Author Powers' stories is the pull of the real against the ideal. In an earlier book, Prince of Darkness, he found a salient image for that tension in a priest eating his breakfast: "He jabbed at the grapefruit before...
Soviet Dilemma. Before long Humphrey, Sparkman and Fulbright began to bear down on the new threat implicit in the changing Soviet policies. If they expected Dulles to be on the defensive, they were surprised...
...staging of this production is intended, one gathers, to create much of the mood that should be implicit in the action. Unfortunately--even if it were perfectly executed--it could hardly make up for the deficiencies in the director's conception of the whole. Jordan Jelk's sets are successful in a somber way, but the lighting could have been better used at times, and the music often seemed superfluous. The shabbiness of the costuming seemed to serve no purpose...
Holding the play together from beginning to end was Royall Tyler's performance as Hugo--the young intellectual revolutionary. Tyler, more than any of the members of the cast, brought his part to life. The confusion, frustration, and near hysteria of Hugo until his final understanding are implicit in his gesture and intonation throughout, and it is fair to say that he largely carries the production...
...front; since the American people are well off materially, they do not feel the need of the bold sort of vision the intellectual might offer. Besides, "loneliness today is considered a dreadful disease; it is said to be dangerous for 'mental health,' and is feared as an implicit denial of 'social concern.' " The world has all but forgotten that "true leadership . . . demands loneliness." The intellectual has become "socially integrated...