Word: revealing
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Shaffer is guilty only of creating a middle ground, somewhere between the simplistic views of his audience and the kind of complexity that never works on stage except in Shakespeare. Shaffer's portrayal of Strang's parents reveal him at his weakest. The father is a self-proclaimed atheist and Marxist, but a sternly Puritan advocate of the work ethic, who, it turns out, is also a patron of dirty movies. The mother is an indulgent Christian who takes the first opportunity to renounce any responsibility she may bear for her son's condition: Alan was a fine boy until...
...want our parties to reflect many fields of American culture in a variety of ways," says Mrs. Ford, "in the entertainment we choose, in the guest lists, in the decorations. We want to have people of achievement there -scientists, artists, intellectuals, people from the sports world." These lists reveal another, unspoken intent: bringing back people who were shut out of the White House in the Nixon years. At one Ford dinner the President invited Justice William O. Douglas, whom he had sought to impeach only four years ago; the two men had a friendly chat during the evening. At another...
...November unemployment rate of 6.5 per cent only begins to tell the story of who and how many are out of work, since the official government statistic ignores about half the people who want work but cannot find it. Moreover, the 6.5 per cent figure fails to reveal the wide variation in unemployment among different groups. The November figures breaks down as follows...
...Rockefeller family testified in support of Nelson Rockefeller's vice-presidential nomination before the House Judiciary Committee last week. Not in person, of course. Their surrogate was J. Richardson Dilworth, 58, the family's urbane, understated senior financial adviser. Responding to demands of committee Democrats that he reveal the Rockefellers' total stock holdings, Dilworth used five charts crammed with statistics to try to dispel the notion that the family exercises inordinate behind-the-scenes power. Not only could Rocky's critics not dispute Dilworth's bewildering rush of figures, at times they could hardly keep...
...Among other things, it baldly stated that all the defendants had received assurances of pardons and support money in return for "maintaining silence." Bittman, who had repeatedly denied ever seeing such a memo, reluctantly produced a copy one day after his former law partners advised him that they would reveal its existence to the prosecutors. That vindicated Hunt's testimony and makes Bittman's continued denial of having relayed the information to Parkinson highly suspect. Moreover, it places Bittman in danger of facing criminal charges...