Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have any sympathy for Communists or their police state ideas. And since no Communist deserves permanent tenure in the future, the entire issue should fade away with the current batch of tenured professors. The risks involved in keeping a known and non-disciplined Communist are much smaller than those implicit in breaking the tenure code because of a lawful though stupid political affiliation. Because breaking tenure rules in even one unjustified instance is like drilling a hole in a dike, a Communist should have as much of a chance as anyone else to show his competence to his fellow teachers...
...supervision of teachers, subtle interrogation of students, foolish and needless imposition of loyalty oaths, but the recruiting of competent men & women sufficiently dedicated to the ideas of teaching and scholarship to recognize that such practices are incompatible with professional integrity. Once we have found such teachers, we should have implicit faith in them and not swoop or hover over them to determine what they are teaching...
Most of Lewis' pieces about other people's books were really implicit defenses of his own. Throughout his life he kept up a running journalistic battle in behalf of realism, by which he meant his idea that the American village could be "as inquisitorial as an army barracks'' and the American businessman "the most grievous victim of his own militant dullness." At the same time, Lewis kept firing away at his literary enemies: the "genteel philosophy" personified in William Dean Howells, a writer with "the code of a pious old maid whose greatest delight...
Evidently, some method for damming up this flood of cheap literature must be established--a method which can avoid the dangers implicit in covert censorship...
...error of his way, tries with some hesitation due to inner conflict, but with complete dedication of spirit and every resource of a brilliant mind, to arouse the American people, lulled to Circean inactivity, to the treasonable conspiracy against the country and the destruction of the Christian values implicit in our civilization and is met with public defamation, the eyebrow-raising of spiritual vagrants in and out of government, the supercilious superiority of guilt itself, and spiritual wickedness in high places; nevertheless, renouncing the things which men hold dear, wealth, position and prestige, and disregarding the statute of limitations...