Word: flout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels. Every year they are patronized by two thirds of the student body; every year they flout with greater insolence the decency and respectability of this College.... They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of a Harvard diploma...
...transformation can be traced largely to the board's four junior members-all economists, all appointed since 1961, all independent enough in word and deed to blur old liberal-conservative labels, flout traditions, flaunt new ideas. Dewey Daane, 48, a Harvard-trained former Treasury aide, likes to call himself a "neo-Keynesian swinger." His was the key vote in the board's 4-3 decision to raise the discount rate-the interest that the Fed charges member banks for borrowing-from 4% to its present 41% in December 1965. George Mitchell, 63, onetime director of finance...
...Flouted Convention. North Viet Nam is known to hold prisoner 34 American pilots; as many as 200 more, officially listed as missing, may also be in Hanoi's hands. In putting them on public display, Hanoi has already violated the 1949 Geneva Convention (which it signed in 1957) guaranteeing prisoners of war protection against "insults and public curiosity." By trying them, the enemy would flout another convention provision, prohibiting reprisals against prisoners. Hanoi's answer is that the Geneva Convention does not apply be cause the U.S. is fighting an undeclared "aggressive war" - even though Article 2 holds...
...movements of coition. Like the young, artists are traditionally supposed to break with tradition, but there is hardly any tradition to break with. Irish, Southern and Jewish writers have been among the most productive in the U.S.-probably because they still have a tradition to work in, or to flout, if they so choose. In what might be called situation esthetics, new styles are eagerly seized even before they are fully formed, and almost automatically accepted; as Critic Harold Rosenberg noted in The Tradition of the New: "An appetite for a new look is now a professional requirement...
...grant the right to strike for better work conditions, but great disproportion exists when an essential working force like the Transport Workers Union can flout a court order, rob the labor movement of its dignity, and create hardship for New York City's populace [Jan. 14]. It is time for the union to curb its unrestrained economic appetite as well as its vituperative chief spokesman; otherwise T.W.U. may join Him at the end of the long White House leash...