Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot understand why Prof. Martin Kilson's attacks against the Afro-American Studies Department receive so much attention while rebuttals seem to be few and far between. If a review of a department is made, it should be an objective review, without excessive treatment of blatant accusations...
...which would be devastatingly cute if it were not also rather unsettling. At least State Representative Harout Sanasarian thinks so. He says that the phone company, a monopoly, should not make its customers pay for this kind of advertising: "It is a blatant example of entering into people's homes and causing conflict between a child and his parents." Wisconsin Telephone seems unperturbed by Sanasarian's crusade-especially since the company realized a record gain of 15,000 extension phones after it launched Lori last year...
Steiniger does not pay much attention to the facts. Instead, he depicts the proceeding as a "monster trial," attacks the blatant "racism" of the jury, and insists that the young Marxist philosophy teacher is the victim of a frame-up. Angela is being persecuted, he reports, because she is black and a Communist, who is combating the monopolistic imperialist elite that rules the U.S. On the Communists' International Women's Day, Steiniger solemnly presented Miss Davis with 50 red carnations...
...Resolution passed because the Johnson Administration had wrongly and intentionally told the Senate that American ships had been attacked. Whether this exchange between Muskie and McGovern had any effect on Tuesday's returns is not really important. What is important is that Muskie had the nerve to attempt this blatant bit of obfuscation...
...learned of Mills' dual loyalties, it reluctantly asked for and got his resignation. At Yale, Provost Charles Taylor sent two administrative assistants to Mills' bachelor apartment with a demand that he resign within 24 hours. After Mills refused, President Kingman Brewster suspended him for a year for "blatant disregard of ethics...