Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balancing Willy and Biff during the first act, the production builds the groundwork of final understanding at the expense of naturalistic melodrama, and hence loses a certain element of blatant dynamism. This preparation, however, results in a shocking comprehension which heightens the power of the second act, and leads the audience--as far as is possible--to a complete grasp of Miller's play. To force the ultimate meaning from Willy Loman's death and still preserve its impact is a feat of dramatic sensitivity and talent. The HDC has done...
What a continuing tragedy that Roman Catholicism stubbornly refuses to emerge from its Dark Age practices, with its mysticism, Latin mumbo-jumbo, and a blatant intolerance (along religious lines, not racial), and actual political persecution in those localities where such is possible. My humble purpose in writing the above is to call attention to the tragedy wherein our ablest presidential candidate, other than Eisenhower, namely Lausche, will be denied the privilege of his potentially great service to the people of this country...
...Tuscaloosa News, the Alabama Highway Patrol, when it finally arrived, had instructions not to touch any student. Had the University forseen the need for police, and had the police been willing to take strong action to quell the riot, there would have been a good chance of preventing such blatant flauting of authority...
...That he do so is all the more essential because Charles Wilson seems to be chopping up the Army and at the same time assuring everyone that the Army is more powerful than ever. The recent redesignation (but not reorganization) of all training divisions as "active" divisions was a blatant example of this practice of misleading the public...
...Fleet Street were smarting cruelly from Churchill's thrusts. It was Randolph who punctured the inaccuracies in a series on his father begun (and abruptly dropped) by the Daily Mail (TIME, Dec. 12). Next to feel the sting was the Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,466,255), whose blatant stories about a modern "virgin birth" created an uproar in the whole British press, until Journalist Churchill, under his frequent pen name, Pharos, in the weekly Spectator, exposed the fact that the hard-boiled Pic had been taken in by a prankster. Then Randolph needled the Kemsley Sunday Graphic for announcing...