Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishment of his Egyptian friends, the rusty-haired Lotz was disclosed in 1965 to be an Israeli spy. Lotz's explanation was persuasive enough to save his life. He joined the Israelis, he said, because they had threatened to reveal his Nazi past to the Bonn authorities. Besides, there was the convincing detail that he was uncircumcised. The court let him off with a 25-year sentence, and only three years later Lotz and his German wife Waldrud were turned over to the Israelis in an exchange of prisoners. Along with nine Israeli captives, the Lotzes were swapped...
...come hell or high water," White told a national meeting of educators in Washington, D.C. Clearly incensed by the grand jury's conclusionsdisputed by both a Justice Department report and the Scranton CommissionWhite called them a "local manifestation of a brewing national disaster." They reveal a "frightening misunderstanding of higher education." Colleges cannot shelter lawbreakers, said White, but neither can they become places "where ideasno matter how offensiveare to be suppressed...
...anthology does not hide Belloc's often absurd fixations. But it does reveal a writer of rare genius and rarer virtues, who had a Romanic love of order, ceremony and pietas, a raging contempt for humbug, snobbism and cant, an adult gusto and a childlike faith, an unerring eye for the telling detail of a life or a landscape, and a blunt, stately, crisp and virile style...
...different routines all fall into a coherent pattern. Each of the characters he assumes is a charlatan, a famous "celebrity" whose every move is dishonest and phony. Yet there is honesty in the dishonesty. The roles are forced on the Brooksian characters by their society; inevitably the "celebrities" haplessly reveal the hollow core beneath their moral and cultural pretensions. Their dogged ineptitude at falsifying themselves arouses our compassion rather than our distaste...
...Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, 1951, and Acting Director, 1954. He is a member of the joint Presidential Congressional Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, a Director of Equity Growth Fund of America, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. These biographies reveal a clear pattern of association with the major institutions of American imperialism, which belies any claim of political neutrality...