Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes the injuries of class appear in terms of blatant social paradoxes, (Why should a master pipefitter call the mediocre school teacher next door "Mr." while the teacher calls him by his first name?), but more often the wounds are expressed by workers in ways so fundamental to their thinking that they themselves do not notice. Sennett and Cobb relate the example of a plumber working on a construction job who would not describe his accomplishment in the first person. When he found that the plans for a major plumbing installation were clearly faulty (though they had been made...
While still in his teens, Bobby became a steady winner, but he was never fully accepted by the tennis establishment. He was too blatant about breaking the amateur rule against taking illicit payments and too big in the mouth. He claims that he was at first denied a spot on the U.S. Davis Cup team, though his record warranted it. Later, after he had taken the national singles championship twice and swept Wimbledon in 1939 (singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles), he was still not accorded the respect that contemporaries like Don Budge and Fred Perry received. He just...
...time when this strength is so blatant and so blatantly used, its source is easily forgotten. But forgetting would be a mistake. ITT's accomplishments in helping to build the economy of Chile, detailed by a company spokesman on the August 8 New York Time's Op-Ed page and implicit in The Sovereign State, are as real as its efforts to help the CIA tear down that economy yesterday and today. American capital, applied by firms like ITT, has increased people's power--over nature, and over other people--to an extent unthinkable to the giants of the past...
...still perched in the top 10 for something like the 70th week in a row. Psychologists have had a field day in this time of Watergate and Cambodia et al., proclaiming Seagull a book of hope and comparing it to St. Exupery. But author Richard Bach is much too blatant in this expanded greeting card. He gives way to gimickry in place of the soft and the absurd. His seagull is too ambitious, and too successful...
...where Beatty and Dunaway roll in the grass. One of Dillinger's gang steals a car from two young lovers, too preoccupied to notice, just as the Barrow gang did. Dillinger's violence is as bloody as Bonnie and Clyde's, its accents and clothes as realistic. Dillinger's blatant theft is the motif of the vengeful cop, relentlessly pursuing the outlaws, finally ambushing them with as little respect for human life as the cheapest crook...