Word: implicitly
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Both share a fear of the mongrelization of white Western culture, with an implicit belief in the inferiority of non-Western culture. Both appeal to the ideal of tolerance in defense of intolerance. Both pander to anti-intellectualism, using the academy as an easy target for frustration over larger social change. Both are discomfited, most basically, by the erosion of traditional forms of power...
...Miami Herald and the Associated Press, including direct quotations from people she had not interviewed. She presumably saw little point in the donkey work of calling the quoted sources, or hunting up counterparts, to provide innocuous remarks. In the mind of her editors, however, she broke an implicit contract with the reader, in which the newspaper vouches that all its facts, especially those surrounded by quotation marks, have been checked for accuracy by the newspaper itself. So they fired her. Parker declined to comment beyond a prepared statement: "I made a mistake, which I deeply regret. My integrity and ethics...
...responsibilities did not really change, but the salary rose. More importantly, Harvard's action sent him an implicit message...
...while now, the makers of many vegetable oils have had a nice little gimmick going. On their bottles, in big, easy-to-read letters, are the words "no cholesterol," sometimes printed with a cute drawing of a healthy heart. The implicit message: Cook all the French fries you want in this oil and don't worry about heart disease...
...when you have seen the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny in the paintings of, say, Albert Bierstadt -- the tiny wagons advancing into those golden floods of light from the westering sun, the absence of opposing Indians, the implicit approval of Jehovah himself -- you still have to decide how good they are as art. This is why the dubious orthodoxy of art-historical deconstruction is so popular. It aborts the problem by collapsing everything into ideology and fatuously claiming that the idea of "quality" is either meaningless or oppressive. It appeals to sanctimony and makes the stuff easy to teach. It lets...