Word: blatant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protest which they sent the school's president and the Minnesota Daily. In their statement the seventeen asserted that they had "faith in the capacity of the students to decide for themselves what ideas they wished to embrace. We feel confident that if the propaganda in the film were blatant then no one, especially the students would be duped by it." The protest was no official statement of the political science department. Only two of the signers held positions as high as associate professors--the rest were teaching fellows or research assistants. Instructor John Houbel summed it up, "We acted...
...book's weaknesses. Viereck bounds from topic to topic, scattering epigrams and insights in his wake. Sometimes the epigrams fall flat, and often the insights are marred by Viereck's sense that he alone has seen the light. His sense of possession in the "the new conservatism" is so blatant that one might forget that Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., had been over much of the same ground in his more-convincing "The Vital Center." There is also the feeling that this book is at least two years too late, that first Czechoslovakia and then Korea aroused almost all American intellectuals from...
...when their generosity did not involve merits and such), who object on some private principle, or who are possessed by phobias against needles they are unjustly deprived of an opportunity for privileges which is available to their colleagues. They are also unjustly subjected to a mass hostility, subtle or blatant as the case may be, which is blind to exceptions...
...recreates the story of Frankie and Johnny as a courtroom parody and the Grizzly golfer relates the exploits of near-sighted Mr. McGoo, who mistakes at bear for his caddy. It is heartening to see a cartoon which relies more on witty dialogue and imaginative drawing than on the blatant sadism exhibited in the usual Disney production...
Realization of this has provoked a mild advocacy of the re-establishment of spring practice. Because the Ivy League considers spring drills to be a more blatant form of commercialism than $4.80 admissions, this movement is slightly surprising...