Word: blatant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vietnamese army (Viet Minh). U.S. officials reason that the pool of 90,000 South Vietnamese who went north after Viet Nam's 1954 partitioning has run dry, hence Northerners are being thrown into the fight by the Reds. But the blatant sending in of Northerners also means that Hanoi, which has tried to pretend that it was not really directing the war in the South, is, in the grim words of one U.S. official, "ready to take off the eighth veil...
...telling them to express what they saw in colors straight from the tube. If a shadow had a bluish look, said he, the painter should use pure ultramarine. A group called the Nabis, or prophets, gathered and asserted that the imitation of three dimensions was less vital than a blatant arrangement of lines and colors. That was art; the other was slavish copying. Bonnard became "the very Japanese Nabi" for his fascination with oriental asymmetry, ascending perspective and sinuous contours...
While Bobby was making what Keating called a "blatant emotional appeal to the teen-age screamers and jumpers," the G.O.P. was mounting a well-financed campaign with headquarters on the fifth floor of 521 Fifth Avenue-one flight above the Goldwater-Miller operation but totally divorced from...
...tries to explain his position. "I've been a lifelong unreconstructed Republican, and I support all Republicans from President down to county commissioner," he says. "I do not agree with every position Goldwater has taken. But I respect his courage and his honesty. It would be the most blatant hypocrisy for Republicans who supported other candidates to pretend now that Senator Goldwater was their first choice-but let's remind ourselves that Lyndon Johnson wasn't our choice...
...vote. Actually, the votes in the primaries were considerably larger than is normal in Democratic primaries in those states. The "blacklash" then, was apparently caused by people voting who do not normally go to the polls. To call this vote a major shifting of opinion, Pettigrew said, is a "blatant fallacy...