Word: obstructiveness
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...been guided by a few simple and unchanging maxims about business and government. Today he is an intellectual fossil. His retirement will be a blessing because he gives some small measure of dignity to ideas whose only relevance to the U.S.'s pressing domestic problems is to obstruct their solution...
...major issues in the recent meeting of the staff of the Center for Research in Personality was the degree to which experiments in scientifically dubious areas such as psilocybin were a legitimate part of the training of graduate students. The converse issue was whether participation in such research might obstruct more conventional training...
...York Times Columnist Arthur Krock was frankly sympathetic toward Katanga's President Moise Tshombe. "It has not been demonstrated," said Krock, that Tshombe would cont nue to obstruct a Congolese peace "if and when a reasonable and constructive solution is formally and officially proposed by the U.N." Columnist David Lawrence coldly accused the U.N. of hypocrisy in claiming any legal right to enter the Congo. Said the Wall Street Journal: "It is not at all clear that the U.N. has some moral duty to subdue Tshombe by force. Secretary-General Thant is no Abraham Lincoln trying to hold together...
Deathwatch, a play written more from experience and less from speculation than Genet's two New York hits, would ring true if the actors didn't consistently obstruct the lines. Sadly though, Peter MacLean as Green Eyes is the only lead with feeling or understanding in his voice; and even he seems tempted to substitute crescendo for these qualities...
...tape and preoccupation with trivial matters have prevented the FCC from using its powers to assure that the country's television stations do, indeed, "serve in the public interest." Power-politicking Congressmen and broadcasters eager to continue the profitable status quo should not be permitted to obstruct the necessary reform because of a personal feud...