Word: flaunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notion emerges clearly from the book, it is that the present system has reached a dead end. In a technological age which demands that public education be run wisely and efficiently, Conant finds that our schools are staffed with too many poorly trained teachers; that local school boards regularly flaunt minimum state standards in hiring teachers; that teachers are assigned to subjects which they have studied insufficiently or not at all; and that teachers are required to take courses in "methods" or "foundations of education" which are often worthless...
...Williams as an erotomaniac, for whom the mildest epithets are "sick" and "decadent." Yet taboo has often been the touchstone of drama. In the profoundest play of Greek tragedy, a man kills his father and marries his mother. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan drama drip with gore and violence and flaunt unnatural affections. Other critics think that Williams' choice of themes shows America to be -as angry young British Playwright John Osborne puts it -"as sex-obsessed as a medieval monastery." Yet Tennessee Williams fills foreign playhouses from Athens to Tokyo, and his current play, The Night of the Iguana...
...Peace Is Inevitable." An icy drizzle fell next morning as Chairman Liu stood beside Khrushchev and Soviet War Minister Rodion Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb to review the traditional parade through Red Square. The military parade lasted eight minutes, just long enough to flaunt a thumping train of Russian rockets, including a slim newcomer called the Silver Needle, which the Soviet press claimed was the kind that downed U.S. Pilot Francis Powers' U-2 last spring...