Word: blatants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witnesses are bought and browbeaten. Regardless of whether or not all this black villainy is true in detail (and Playwright Rose has his documents well in hand), it weakens the drama. The narrator concedes, almost offhandedly, that the jury rendered its verdict in good faith; but after all the blatant hostility of the judge and prosecution-and, seemingly, of society itself-the play admits no possibility of tragic error, only of deliberate malevolence...
...stagy, often garish, and outrageously flattering to his subjects; but he was also an ideal mirror for an age whose ideal was elegance and whose idol was Beau Brummell. In a sense, Lawrence was more honest with his time by painting it in all its blatant vanity-not as it was, but as it wanted...
...propaganda aimed at Cuba: "Very recently in a faraway country that has never known freedom-one which today holds millions of humans in subjugation-impassioned language has been used to assert that the United States has held Latin America in a colonial relationship." Snapped Ike: "This is a blatant falsehood"-and he pointed to the U.S. record in Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico and the Philippines, in Hawaii and Alaska...
Ever since De Sapio bulldozed the State Convention into nominating Frank Hogan for the senatorial seat now held by Kenneth Keating, New York's liberals have been battling to loosen his grip on the party. At that time De Sapio's blatant display of political power raised the charge of "bossism" and undoubtedly helped sweep the Rockefeller-Keating ticket to victory...
...commuter, for his part, is sure that the railroads harbor a blatant dislike for him. The Boston and Albany is pushing a petition to drop all of its 39 commuter trains in Massachusetts. The New York, Susquehanna & Western wants to do away with all passenger service-as more than a dozen other U.S. railroads have done since 1950. The New Haven has dropped its Old Colony road to Boston's South Shore and Cape Cod, the Central its Putnam division in Westchester County and West Shore line in New Jersey and New York. Boston and Maine's President...