Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...copy to survive the uphill obstacle course posed by copy readers, editors and publishers? Some of the journalists present suggested that newsmen have some say in the editorial decisions of their papers; others advocated a national steering committee that would serve as a watchdog, criticizing the most blatant inadequacies of the press. But no one yet seems to know how newly won self-awareness on the part of the reporter can be translated into anything other than the occasional fluke of a good piece. It may be 1972, but all the news that fits, still isn't getting printed...
...acquired about 683,000 (0.3 per cent of outstanding shares) of Gulf Oil Company stock over the last 25 years, largely as gifts and principally from the Mellon family. The present market value of Harvard's holdings is about $18.5 million. In refusing to divest itself of this blatant tie to Gulf, Harvard thus has chosen to support Gulf's continued involvement in Angola. The position of the Harvard Corporation is thoroughly supportive to the distorted rationalization that Gulf issues to justify its involvement in Angola. Harvard intends to help bring about Gulf's further entrenchment in Angola through what...
McGovern, favored 2 to 1 over Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine) in Massachusetts in a preliminary poll published yesterday by The Boston Globe, demanded that the Price Commission freeze all prices immediately to halt "this blatant business blas...
This wealth of grievances against the junta is slowly giving rise to spontaneous mass movements to resist the junta policies--by any means that fall within the presently very narrow boundaries of legality. And beneath this surface of legality lies the very blatant terrorism of the government on the one hand, and the underground organizations on the other. More than 200,000 patriots have been detained or interrogated by the Security or the military police for alleged anti-regime activities...
...Album II. His experiments in almost shrieking emotional honesty do not always succeed completely, but the openness, eloquence, and powerful directness of his desperate loneliness make James Taylor's moanings seem sadly trivial. Several times, Wainwright's attempts to reduce emotions to the briefest, most forceful, and most blatant lyrical statements sound dangerously close to the slogans on insipid posters in the Coop. When his attempts bear fruit, they are absolutely searing...