Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the masses, to remind the army that its loyalty should be to him and not to the revolutionary captains who led the coup, and to warn the anarchic left that he will use force if necessary to keep order. Some military officers are unhappy about Spinola's blatant power grab, but there is little that they can do about it, at least for the moment. Three weeks ago, when leaders of the Armed Forces Movement protested, the President threatened to resign unless they promised to support him. The captains backed down and gave him an overwhelming vote...
...otherwise certified adjectivally as credible. The use of unattributed stories makes the press vulnerable. Editorialists across the country demand that Nixon reveal all his secret conversations while at the same time insisting that journalists have the right to total confidentiality. The apparent double standard seems all the more blatant when newspapers become preachy on the issue. Last summer, during the height of the Agnew investigation, the New York Times, Washington Post and Washington Star-News agreed in editorials that the beleaguered Vice President had been abused by the stream of leaks from Justice Department sources damaging to his public defense...
...middle-class or middlebrow, even for those prop erly defined as belonging to either group, often seems conventional, complacent and confining, which may be why their tastes in books and movies run ? at a safe distance from reality ? to behavior or opinions more blatant than their own. Middle leads naturally to mediocre, a word that takes its roots from what is middling and therefore ordinary. Yet Aristotle, judging the temperaments of men, exalted the intermediate and argued that anything more extreme was either excess or defect. To him there was, for example, a desirable quality called bravery...
Furious Bankers. Many commercial bankers are furious. The savings-bank payment order, says Rex J. Morthland, president of the American Bankers Association, "is a blatant violation of the spirit and the letter of the historic distinction between savings and checking accounts." The ABA last week asked the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to let commercial banks also pay 5¼% interest on savings...
...report on the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research. Next to the name of Prof. Ewart Guinier, chairperson of the Afro-American Studies Department, was a footnote, with the notation below, "Withdrew name after the report was submitted, but has not filed a minority opinion." This is a blatant distortion of the facts...