Word: flaunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to the President's TV appeal for "the silent majority" to speak up, the cheering anti-Moratorium demonstrators represent a fresh force in the national controversy over the war. They praise Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, support the Government's course in Viet Nam and flaunt their patriotism. They resent, perhaps even more vehemently, all those rebellious youngsters and peace marchers who have attracted so much attention for so long...
...society is responsible for the high abortion rate in this country. It's not just blind stupidity, the country is sick. We're afraid to touch each other, afraid to get close to each other, because of all the phony moralistic ideas about sex. Current books and movies flaunt sex in young people's faces, but at the same time the society is saying, it's wrong, don't do it. It's got people so hung up that they can't talk to each other. We have to face the fact that we're all sexual beings...
Doubtless, a feeling of defensiveness accounts for some of the flag clutching. But obviously there is more involved. Those who attack the standard also attack what it represents. Those who flaunt Old Glory are using it as an ensign of reassurance that discontent has its limits...
THOUGH their sophistication put them in the top ten on Playboy's loose list last Fall, Radcliffe girls don't always measure up to the image they seem to flaunt in classrooms every...
...Commonweal Catholic, as Sheed sees it, cannot believe that his personal feelings are relevant to the issues. He has only contempt for "weeping politicians," who either confess their political sins or flaunt their virtues. "McCarthy could not, if life depended on it, act out his compassion for the poor," says Sheed. "Politically, this subject demands a certain amount of Mammy-singing. You can denounce the war calmly, and the emotion will take care of itself. But when you come to poverty, you must perform. McCarthy spoke precisely as strongly about both subjects; yet he was felt to be passionate about...