Word: blatants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest acquisitions, lifted into place last week, are two reliefs by Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù, 56, who did the Doors of Death for St. Peter's in Rome (TIME, July 24). Designed for the portal of the Palazzo d'ltalia, the bronze plaques replace a blatant bit of Mussolini modern-a 1935 glass panel of a lump-shouldered shoveler by one Attilio Piccirilli, inscribed ART IS LABOR; LABOR IS ART. "Brutto!" exclaimed Manzù when he saw it and, commissioned by the Fiat automobile company, engraved in 1963 his own images in bronze...
...only reliable daily in Mississippi. But, outside Atlanta and Greenville, the picture is very bleak. The Northern newspapers rarely penetrate below Raleigh, and many Southern editors cut crucial paragraphs from wire service reports of civil rights activities. When it comes to local coverage and editorials, distortion is even more blatant...
...that novelists rarely know corporation life. They have trouble giving their characters meaningful work to do at their jobs. They have no idea of the subtle moral dilemmas the business organization can thrust at a man. Therefore the novelists fall back on bribery and sexual pandering, though these blatant corruptions are 1) unconvincing on realistic grounds because they occur only in a few grubby corners of the business world, and 2) uninteresting on fictional grounds because nobody concerned has any doubt of their immorality...
...president, Duncan A. Ragsdale '65-3, claimed in a recent campaign statement to have "contacted and received favorable replies...for speaking engagements" from three national figures, including Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.). Members of the faction opposing Ragsdale insist that his claim to have contacted Scott is a "blatant distortion...
Recent talks between Presidents Christopher Gbenye, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Lyere, and Premier Milton Obote marked the beginning of African solidarity and a concerted effort to nip in the bud such crude and blatant neocolonialism in Africa. The fate of Tshombe is clearly discernable. In the next few months Congolese nationalists will be well armed and trained, and it will be extremely difficult for Tshombe and his American, Belgian, and South African mercenaries to hold their...