Word: blatantly
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...novel's hero, of a sort, turns out to be Benton Lynch, nephew of the bald Jeeter, son of the fat Jeeter, and a lad who "could not ever rise much above cipherdom." The author, of course, elaborates: "He was not blatantly stupid or outright idiotic. There was not anything blatant or outright about him, not anything at all. He mostly simply was not." What Benton does possess, it turns out, is a taste for armed robbery and a lecherous hankering after Jane Elizabeth Firesheets, who is willing to overlook his myriad inadequacies for the thrill of sharing a life...
...nonbinding resolution asking that the conference committee report the reason for each transition rule adopted, exactly who will profit and by how much--information that is still lacking on many of the Senate's own transition rules. If the conference committee complies, the unprecedented publicity might just make such blatant favors a bit harder to enact...
...decisions of the liberal Warren Court. His critics sometimes accuse him of disingenuously twisting history to fit his own views. "Don't forget, Rehnquist is a radical," says Columbia Law School Professor Vincent Blasi. "Nobody since the 1930s has been so niggardly in interpreting the Bill of Rights, so blatant in simply ignoring years and years of precedent." Rehnquist retorts that such attacks come from liberal academics and that "on occasion, they write somewhat disingenuously about...
...Board of Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 (no relation to Derek Bok) in the official election packet for that governing body, which is sent to all alumni. That letter criticized the campaign of three graduates running for the board by petition and on a pro-divestment platform. A blatant attempt to influence the election, the letter elicited strong protests from alumni. Yet, not only did University officials defend their misguided attempt to tamper with an election, Derek Bok failed to present his whole involvement in the decision to send the letter. No until the press confronted him with...
...which was signed by Board of Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 (no relation), asked alumni not to vote for single-issue candidates, specifically the trio of alums running on a pro-divestment platform. The letter came in the same package as the ballots for the Board and constituted blatant electioneering...