Word: blatants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...older catalyst is the Memphis police department's traditional policy of heavy-handedness toward Negroes, which ranges from routine rudeness to blatant brutality. Since King's visit and the marches, the Commission on Civil Rights has collected more than 50 documented cases of police brutality...
...been for one other factor: Liberalization also seems to entail a heavy dose of Nationalism--which in East Europe means independence from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had come to be closely identified with the repressive Stalinist regimes of the past. The memory of the blatant economic exploitation carried out by the Soviet Union in the early 50's contributes to the bitterness felt by today's liberal reformers towards the Soviet Union...
...police statistics and the new willingness of the poor to report crimes that used to go unrecorded. On the whole, Americans are now more apt to settle their arguments through legal redress, or at least nonviolent cunning, rather than with fists, knives and guns. Organized crime has shifted from blatant violence to financial infighting; today's juvenile gangs are more talkers than fighters; very few labor-dispute slayings have occurred since the 1950s...
...indeed a very imperceptive article, and was written in the most blatant paternalistic rhetoric. Although Miss Bodian is quite sophisticated in her style of writing, she is very naive and makes gross rationalizations. I too witnessed the insidious effects of a "field day" for white liberals who pursued a missionary impulse. When I was told that there would be a tutorial program with Harvard-Radcliffe and M.I.T., I realized that it was another attempt at acculturation. This in fact was the chief cause of much controversy about the tutorial program at Shaw University...
...have come to rely upon TIME as a lucid and reasonably objective commentary on the events that are taking place in this world of ours. I find, however, that your recent commentary on the war and the Tet offensive [March 1] is blatant alarmism, shrill with Cassandra's cry and, from my vantage point at least, unsupportable in fact. This is painfully evident to anyone serving here. Your reporting of the impact of the recent offensive on the war, the government, and the economy, is exaggerated and misleading...