Word: blatants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that good enough? The U.S. voter takes a fairly cynical view of politicians, more or less expecting them to be up to their campaign buttons in patronage and various forms of skulduggery. But at the same time, he also expects (or wants) them to be above the more blatant forms of corruption. That is why Adam Clayton Powell's flamboyant peccadilloes, Senator Thomas Dodd's shifty manipulations of "campaign funds" and the late Senator Robert Kerr's wheeling and dealing with Bobby Baker have agitated two congressional committees and large sections of public opinion about the ethics...
...asked for momentous musical events where they were not called for. He did show an uncanny instinct for pace, but his excellent section leaders should share credit for this. On the whole, he behaved as though he were conducting a mammoth Romantic orchestra like the Berlin Philharmonic, in blatant contradiction to the classical and chamber-like possibilities of the orchestra and his own program...
...House exacted the supreme legislative penalty-exclusion.* Drastic as the action was, a majority of the House was determined to make Powell's punishment fit his offenses -and they were numerous. Since he was first elected in 1944, Powell has cheerfully collected enemies with his arrogance, his blatant junketing and his spoiler's role in upsetting arduously achieved compromises. To this woeful record, two investigatory panels in recent months added evidence of payroll irregularities and misappropriation of congressional travel funds. To top it all off, he was unable to enter his home state, thanks to jail sentences imposed...
...psychopathological. (Although perhaps not: it was broadcast by the hundreds at the time, and achieved its objective brilliantly. But when Rainwater and Yancey recently asked to reproduce it in their book, Payton declined.) Charles M. Silberman, author of Crisis in Black and White, called it "the most blatant distortion that I can remember seeing in a long time." In a letter to a Presbyterian minister he wrote...
Apart from Kuntze's blatant indiscretion the prosecution was plainly a reflection of the Administration's growing concern over the serious leakage of stores in Viet Nam, an obvious target for Republican criticism in the next Congress. Just as clearly, the Navy's delicate handling of the case showed its reluctance to implicate any highly placed Vietnamese officials who might have a more lucrative interest in logistics. As for Jannie Suen, Captain Kuntze's original sin, naval intelligence solemnly reported that she had disappeared without trace...