Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vignettes of violent street scenes and underworld characters develop into a seething panorama of the revolutionary mob, culminating inevitably in massacres in the streets and prisons, and finally in the Reign of Terror. As for Restif himself, he was several times in danger from the Terror, but made an abject declaration for the party of Robespierre and survived to become a minor police official under Napoleon...
Died. Alexander Gerasimov, 82, Stalin's favorite painter, a totally unimaginative member of the draw-it-likethey-want-it-to-look school who won just about every honor there was for his portraits of the Soviet dictator, but fell from favor in the great destalinization campaign despite his abject recantings, a switch that Western observers regarded as something akin to Whistler turning on his mother; of a heart attack; in Moscow...
...deny the rumors of a minister's indiscretions with Christine. Profumo's firm denial of wrongdoing, and a demonstration of support from Prime Minister Macmillan, quashed the story temporarily-until it burst forth again last week. This time Profumo resigned from the government after an abrupt, abject confession that he had previously lied to the Prime Minister, his colleagues and the House of Commons...
...taken for granted, self-seeking politicians underwrite featherbedding to win votes from powerful unions, and then seek out economists to provide scholarly excuses. Says Brazil's Juvenal Osório Gomes, a government economist: "Only a violently capitalistic regime without any social sentiment would threaten workers with the abject misery of having to look for a job and not finding it. Brazil is not violently capitalistic and never will...
...Union of Soviet Writers last month addressed itself almost exclusively to destroying the cult of Evtushenko. In all, close to 40 tame authors trooped monotonously forward to denounce Evtushenko and other liberal young writers for offenses ranging from bad rhymes to "sacrilegious statements" about the Revolution. Though Evtushenko made abject apologies for his "irrevocable mistake.'' the drumfire of criticism only grew louder and more insistent...