Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young Converts. Smith is concerned that racial inequities are now being overlooked because the more blatant signs of discrimination are past. "Whites simply don't pay much attention to blacks," he observes. He himself is assistant dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School (the first black in the seminary's administration), but he notes that "it is difficult to get seminaries to take into account that black Christians existed and do exist." Smith is disappointed that some young blacks have become converts to other religions-the Black Muslims, for instance. Still, he believes that in the South the number...
...delegation. Then a few minutes later-with Schweiker at his side-Reagan was downstairs in front of his workers. He spoke movingly of rejecting expediency and not compromising on principles. A nonparticipating observer could not help wondering about these appeals, for Reagan was standing right next to his most blatant expedient choice. "Don't get cynical," he told them, some of whom by now were crying. "Look at yourselves and realize there are millions of Americans out there who want it to be a shining city on a hill." Nancy Reagan began to weep openly and turned her back...
Other lesser observers have made blatant comparisons. In 1968 The New Republic editorially linked the assassinations of Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, two reforming fraternal politicians of Rome who lived more than a century before Christ, with the murders of John and Robert Kennedy. At a background briefing for press executives a year before Watergate, Richard Nixon spoke of the "great civilizations of the past, subject to the decadence that eventually destroys the civilization." Nixon went on to speculate that "the U.S. is now reaching that period." Although he agrees with Nixon on hardly any other subject, Novelist Gore Vidal...
...high oil prices, Mexico has been opening up new oilfields and has even begun exporting petroleum. Many voters, though, are restless about the failure of a supposedly revolutionary party to solve such nagging social problems as high unemployment (estimated at 30%) illiteracy (27%), corruption, a top-heavy bureaucracy and blatant tax evasion...
...blatant effort to buy the Red Sox a World Championship, and one not without pathos. For 43 years the team's benevolent millionaire owner, Thomas Yawkey, 73, had spent lavishly−and unsuccessfully−to bring Boston a World Series winner. The closest he came was last year when his underdog Red Sox lost to Cincinnati in the ninth inning of a seven-game Series. Now Yawkey is seriously...