Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cries of outrage should greet the President's blatant grab for more power; instead, we sagely nod our heads and agree that we must sacrifice for the good of the state. Rather than demanding the repeal of the energy price controls that caused the crisis, we blindly resolve to give the Government even more authority over our lives. This is war-war against our liberty-and we are surrendering without firing a shot...
...editors not see that if they can deny Kissinger an academic position because, in their opinion, Kissinger has a "blatant disregard for human life and democratic procedure," those who also can be excluded from a university community are a conventional Marxist, a Vietnam draft evader, and a women's libber? After all, is violent revolution a "democratic procedure"? Is abortion a "blatent disregard for human life...
Storey's method is that of the playwright: character and plot emerge mainly through dialogue, backed up by simple, controlled description. Blatant authorial intrusions are rare. Like his Victorian predecessors, Storey remains outside his characters, looking in; he avoids interior monologues, allo ing the feelings of his characters to surface in their words and actions. Colin is the focal point of the novel--Mr. and Mrs. Saville are always referred to as "his father" and "his mother" even when the antecedent is unspecified--but Storey refuses to lose himself in a single point of view, preferring the role...
Foreign confidence was shaken by the disastrous financial crisis undergone two years ago by the country's national oil company, Pertamina. Afflicted by gross mismanagement and blatant corruption, the company could not repay several billion dollars in loan obligations and had to be bailed out by the government. To help raise the money, the government assessed Caltex-producer of 63% of Indonesian oil-an extra $1 per bbl. in royalties and arbitrarily cut the earnings of other foreign oil companies by about $2.50 per bbl. Admits Indonesian Minister of Mining Affairs...
Given that Shakespeare's delicate handling of indelicate subjects has burgeoned into blatant indelicacy these days, burlesque has surely become the right accent for romance. Guare and Shapiro's Two Gentlemen of Verona revels in the vulgarity of sex and the naivety of love; it treats the profounder pretensions of lovers and politicians and wealth with sarcasm. It teaches no lessons and believes in happy endings. It declaims old poetry and drives new music hard at you. It requires relaxed yet precise coordination which the production in Harvard Yard, directed by John Bard Manulis, pulls off with only minor hitches...