Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wracked Stuart England. His bass conveys depression and despair by a simple, minor sequence. Hubbard tries to flesh out the piece by drastically slowing the tempo and playing entirely in the piano's lower register. For all of Hubbard's attempts to write "felt" music, her combination of blatant imagery and her derivative performance produces songs that are just background noises...
...STEVENS, the country's second largest textile industry, is notorious for its unethical and illegal labor practices. It pays its workers less than any other industry in the country. It combats workers' attempts to organize with blatant force or threats of dismissal. It lays off workers incapacitated with the brown lung disease contracted in the mills, refusing to provide compensation. But J.P. Stevens is not solely responsible for its workers' inability to organize against these abuses. Rise Gonna Rise argues that Stevens' workers are also prevented from organizing by their own nostalgic feelings and deference...
Courageous and difficult endeavors such as these must of course be applauded by concerned Bostonians. But until blatant acts of disregard for the property, security, and civil rights of others receive the punishment they deserve--regardless of who commits these acts--Boston will remain an expanse of separate minefields...
Norman Miller, the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau chief, wrote last year: "Subtle and even blatant anti-Catholicism is surfacing again." In a 1977 book titled An Ugly Little Secret, Andrew Greeley, a priest-sociologist, called anti-Catholic bias the "last remaining unexposed prejudice in American life." "This prejudice," wrote Greeley, "is not as harmful to individuals as either anti-Semitism or racism ... [But] it is more insidious because it is not acknowledged, not recognized, not explicitly and self-consciously rejected. Good American liberals who would not dream of using sexist language or racist slurs or anti-Semitic...
Perhaps worse, department heads nonchalantly accept their colleagues' blatant evasion of tutorial responsibility. Without exception, they admit they have not considered how they might enforce the regulations in the future. One wonders why the Faculty devoted so much of their precious committee time to disputing the fine points of the legislation when they had no intention of obeying the basic premise of the reforms...