Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Backward" is a word no longer used in polite Western circles to describe the underdeveloped nations of the world. Yet this is precisely the word that I. R. Sinai uses, plus some even blunter ones, in an angrily eloquent book on the problems and prospects of the new nations. "The international atmosphere," writes Sinai, "is absolutely clogged with slogans, speeches and books extolling the 'Great Revolution' that has supposedly been brought about in all these populous territories. What we are witnessing in reality is a colorful masquerade, a sort of superior political orgy, superficially exciting but essentially undermining...
Goldwater is not, in fact, a fascist. He only presents a blunter, rougher version of what Johnson has been saying all along. Big Business knows, however, that Johnson's velvet glove has been more effective than Goldwater's iron hand in suppressing popular struggles. This is why businessmen are this year flocking in unprecedented numbers to the Democratic Party...
...Beatitude's Head. What the Turks fear is precisely what Greece threatens: to rip Cyprus from the troubled treaty that gives the 18% Turkish minority a veto over the majority Greek Cypriots and set it on the path toward enosis, or merger with Greece. No one is a blunter advocate of this course than wizened, fierce-mustached George Grivas, 66, the ascetic little soldier (5 ft. 4 in.) who led Cyprus' EOKA revolt against Britain in 1959 and spent five years in Greek exile. Dissatisfied with the policies of Makarios, whom he considers dishonest, not very clever...
...mystified and slightly hostile silence, as if they did not understand the newcomer and hardly cared. "A homogeneous mixture of merits and cunning," cabled the Washington correspondent of Le Monde in a recent attempt to translate Johnson into Gallic terms. In L'Express, Editorial Cartoonist Tim was even blunter...
...signee, who asked that his name not be used, was blunter. "Harvard's usual approach to architecture is incredibly conservative, and when they break out of it, it's usually to build a real monstrosity. Surely a building as original and as lovely as this one is an occasion for rejoicing and congratulation...