Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Playwright Gazzo's desire to portray a new Lost Generation goes a need to empurple it; with his feeling for vivid lingo goes a taste for bad pothouse lyricism. Nor is he aware that violence not only differs from intensity but defeats it, or that such blatant naturalism as his must lead to unreality...
...unmentioned rule that guests are brought in only seldom and that they should be "the better kind of person." It is reported, perhaps apocryphally, that one of the greatest rows in Porcellian Club history was caused when General Eisenhower was brought into the club for the second time, a blatant violation of a P.C. rule that limits each guest to one visit...
Perhaps Mr. Richard M. Alpher, who wrote [Oct. 6] about making "your stupid Southerners stupider," should come South to school to learn the proper use of the comparative form of the word "stupid." How can we come to mutual understanding when we have such people, who are blatant, ungracious, prejudiced and ignorant...
...people of this country were fooled once too often by Vice President Nixon and his blatant opportunism, but they can not be fooled all the time-as testified by the "weight of the mail...
...Brooms. For all its blatant oversimplification, The Ugly American (a title that seeks to go beyond and below Graham Greene's The Quiet American) has the great merit of drawing the reader into a vital subject rarely treated by fiction. And this Book of the Month Club selection does illustrate the fact that no nation in history has ever faced the problems the U.S. encounters. Like proconsuls of General Napier's type, U.S. officials are held responsible for the welfare of millions, are expected to attend to their wants and hopes, from plumbing to higher education. But, unlike...