It would seem less a case of secretiveness than obfuscation.
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The Gates funds, run by Michael Larson, are known for their secretiveness.
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The touch of Theranos here is the need for secretiveness and control.
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Some staffers resented Building 8's secretiveness — to enter the space you needed an escort.
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And Mr. Trump has jumped on her Goldman speeches as evidence of hypocrisy and secretiveness.
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Your tendency so far in your career has been to answer hostility with distrust, and secretiveness.
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When Kenneth Dart relocated to Grand Cayman, his secretiveness and colorful business dealings aroused local suspicion.
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This secretiveness has prompted some lawmakers to call for greater scrutiny of the military's clandestine units.
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The song's sexy secretiveness stays with you even after the credits of the music video roll.
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Mr. Dubourdieu was an enemy of pretense and impatient with the traditional secretiveness of the Bordeaux wine trade.
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"Avedon's secretiveness might have scuttled a traditional biography, but it's sidestepped with Stevens's oral history approach," Sehgal wrote.
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This may speak to Apple's secretiveness and its tendency to build most of its products and services in-house.
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Claudia was on board, and when they broached the scheme to Paige, she seemed amenable, although the secretiveness bothered her.
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Though Hillary Clinton can attack Mr Trump's financial secretiveness in the general election, voters perceive her as comparably untrustworthy to Mr Trump.
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Baseball insiders also assume the team has the largest analytics department, though because of the team's secretiveness, nobody can say for certain.
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Gizmodo smartly points out that Netflix's secretiveness about throttling speeds is incongruous, since it doesn't really violate principles of net neutrality. Why?
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The secretiveness of North Korea has made it an easy target for America to project various stereotypes, about Asians and about dictators.
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The secretiveness has fueled suspicion among bereaved families and human rights monitors that guns and drugs are planted on suspects at crime scenes.
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"Regardless, there are people dealing with severe issues around sex — it's the uncontrollable behavior and the secretiveness that severely impede functionality," she says.
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The secretiveness which Lincoln wholly lacked, Stanton had in marked degree; the charity which Stanton could not feel, coursed from every pore in Lincoln.
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Some reviewers saw their willingness to discuss deeply personal matters as a deliberate effort to draw a contrast to the Romanovs' secretiveness and withdrawal.
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It's an unenviable position for any company to be in — not least one, like Huawei, that is privately owned and was long known for secretiveness.
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Holmes readily volunteered in interviews that her self-described "uniform" — as well as her office furniture and penchant for secretiveness — was borrowed from Jobs, her idol.
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There are hints that it may have been very important indeed, but given Mr. Trump's secretiveness and his refusal to release his taxes, nobody really knows.
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The very secretiveness that allowed him to outsmart the military industrial complex also fueled his war against leaks, ultimately leading to his undoing in the Watergate scandal.
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Underwood's secretiveness around the show's outcome could also show how The Bachelor's producers are capitalizing on a new way to add even more twists and turns to the reality series.
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While noting that there's really no hard data on the BCSP, the Foundation gives the program a weak thumbs up and offers a kind of wan defense of the program's secretiveness.
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"Whatever its original purpose, secretiveness became an organizational principle," Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, the editor of the liberal lay Catholic journal Commonweal, wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1997.
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Ever since Clinton fell ill at a 9/11 memorial, Trump has made a big deal out of her health—using it as a way to attack her presidential stamina, as well as her secretiveness.
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"Clinton has a reputation for secretiveness, and yet she has a robust public record that goes well beyond what we know about Trump," says Steve Aftergood, head of the Federation of American Scientists' government secrecy program.
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Such an air of mystery and secretiveness wafts inescapably through the pages of Lynne Adele and Bruce Lee Webb's new book, As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 28–2200 (University of Texas Press).
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Most people who feel that their weight is unhealthy have already tried to diet, said Abramson, so any conversation about their weight will probably come across as nagging, and this will just increase their shame, defensiveness and even secretiveness.
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Or perhaps the strict control the State exercises over the archive, constantly checking its contents and the conditions in which it is kept, has taken away that sense of liberty in secretiveness typical of Florentine families in the past.
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Many voters are just sickened by the sleaziness of the Clinton machine — the dubious explanations about the emails; the secretiveness; the inside relationships that enrich the family and the Clinton Foundation; the apparent tendency to always, always, always take the money.
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Since its first night in June, Jolene, which is named after Dolly Parton's ode to the other woman to play off secretiveness about transamory, has garnered buzz—Dita von Teese gleefully shot a money gun at a July event, and a steady stream of performers are reaching out to EthicalDrvgs for opportunities.
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The more than 10,000 documents, made public as part of a Freedom of Information lawsuit by the Sierra Club, show that the agency's close control of Mr. Pruitt's events is driven more by a desire to avoid tough questions from the public than by concerns about security, contradicting Mr. Pruitt's longstanding defense of his secretiveness.
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Films like I Am Gay and Muslim, A Jihad for Love, Naz & Maalik or the documentary series Gay Muslims from the UK's Channel 4 relate the struggles faced by gay Muslims, from struggling to come out to coming to terms with "the ambiguity and secretiveness of the life they feel condemned to live," as I Am Gay and Muslim puts it.
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As I watch the name of Cyprus being tossed around as a laundering place for Russian black money and as a secretive tax haven, and even though I understand the journalistic temptation to suggestively exploit the name of a small country that is defenseless against demonization, I am surprised to see that serious journalists do not notice the inconsistency of basing stories on information either provided by Cyprus authorities or otherwise obtained from Cypriot sources in order to argue a case for secretiveness and evasive behavior.
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AND I THINK THAT ITS – IM GOING TO SAY IN A CONSIDERED WAY, ITS OBSESSIVE SECRETIVENESS IS NOT TO ITS BENEFIT AND EXCITES THE SUSPICION OF THOSE WHO WATCH IT WHICH IS NOT TO DIRECTLY TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, BUT DIRECT ANSWER, YES, I THINK IT WILL PLAY IN SOME WAY IN THE PEAK OF THE NEXT CYCLE, IT WILL BE SEEN AS, YOU KNOW, AS A FIGUREHEAD OF THIS PARTICULAR UPSWING IN CENTRAL BANK LEVITATED MARKETS AND IN, YOU KNOW, ABNORMALLY, IN FACT, UNIQUELY LOW INTEREST RATES.
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Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, and apathy. Affected individuals may simultaneously demonstrate a rich and elaborate but exclusively internal fantasy world.Arthur S. Reber (1995). Dictionary of Psychology, Penguin p. 690.
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His life at home was a success, and the two returned happily, vowing to abandon secretiveness in love. Alice and Cushing married, and Wentworth promised to put his life to use. The last scene shows Evelyn and Manson at a restaurant with William Rice. A woman named Mademoiselle St. Clar is singing.
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He asks for Bunny's forgiveness for his secretiveness, and now informs Bunny of his plan. They will enter the house when it is empty and try to drug Rosenthall's whiskey. Later, they will take the diamonds while Rosenthall and Purvis are intoxicated, while avoiding the ladies and the servants. To be safe, each man will bring a gun, and be disguised as a ruffian.
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At the "bottom of the Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs is the traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity". After the Russian Revolution, this sense of insecurity became mixed with communist ideology and "Oriental secretiveness and conspiracy". Soviet international behavior depended mainly on the internal necessities of Joseph Stalin's regime; according to Kennan, Stalin needed a hostile world in order to legitimize his autocratic rule.
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In order to continue to control the main mines on the field Moffat infiltrated the Vulcan company through nominees and within seven months he controlled 40% of the company's shares. Moffat also sought to amalgamate the Vulcan and Irvinebank Mining Companies. This confrontation and the secretiveness about the Loudoun Mill operating costs and the direction of the Vulcan lodes hampered negotiations for a co-operative operation.
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In business, stealth mode is a company's temporary state of secretiveness, usually undertaken to avoid alerting competitors to a pending product launch or another business initiative. When an entire company is in stealth mode it may attempt to mislead the public about its true company goals. For example, it may give code names to its pending products. It may operate a corporate website that does not disclose its personnel or location.
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A. brasiliensis lateral view Austromerope is a genus of forcepfly which contains only two known species, Austromerope poultoni from Western Australia, and the South American Austromerope brasiliensis. They are small scorpionflies, with large forceps-like structures at the tail and two pairs of wings. Only adults and eggs from captured adults are known - no larval stage has been seen. Much of the biology of these insects is not known, due to their secretiveness and rarity.
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Capel told the guests on the night of his death that he was about to be engaged. They assumed that it was to Marjorie Dilke. His secretiveness about the engagement makes Conway wonder if the engagement was to someone else, such as a married woman. All agree that Capel's manner that night was like a man who had won a large gamble and was defying the odds, yet ten minutes later he shot himself.
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A young wife is becoming very distraught over the fact that her husband, a secret service "spy" for Britain, has changed his mind about transferring away so that he can spend more time with her and their young son. He has grown cold and distant towards her; she thinks it's because of the secretiveness of his work. Meanwhile, a U.S spy comes to Britain and is induced to help the British "team" with an undercover spy ring...
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Sexual compulsion includes an increased urge in sexual behavior and thoughts. This compulsion may also lead to several consequences in the individual's life, including risky partner selection, increased chance for STDs and depression, as well as pregnancy. There has not yet been a determined estimate of its prevalence due to the secretiveness of the disorder. However, research conducted in the early 1990s in the United States gave prevalence estimates between 5–6% in the U.S. population, with male cases being higher than female.
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The following can indicate a delusion: # The patient expresses an idea or belief with unusual persistence or force, even when evidence suggests the contradictory. # That idea appears to have an undue influence on the patient's life, and the way of life is often altered to an inexplicable extent. # Despite their profound conviction, there is often a quality of secretiveness or suspicion when the patient is questioned about it. # The individual tends to be humorless and oversensitive, especially about the belief.
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His fiancée, Sue, insists that he arrange for them to leave so that he can sell the house, giving them enough money for their impending marriage. The tenants are a man, Omerie Sancisco, and two women, Klia and Kleph Sancisco. They fascinate Oliver with the perfection of their appearance and manners, their strange connoisseur's attitude to everything, and their secretiveness about their origin and about their insistence on that house at that time. Oliver's half-hearted attempts to evict them founder when he becomes attracted to Kleph.
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Miss Giddens soon grows disturbed by the children's occasional odd behaviours and secretiveness, and is bothered by disembodied voices and apparitions of a man and woman she witnesses in the house, whom Mrs. Grose identifies, from their descriptions, as Miss Jessel and Peter Quint, another deceased employee of the children's uncle. Mrs. Grose also reluctantly reveals that the two were in a relationship prior to their deaths. Miss Giddens concludes that the ghosts of Quint and Miss Jessel possess the bodies of the children so they can physically continue their relationship.
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The painting was first exhibited at the eighth (and last) Impressionist exhibition in May 1886, then in August 1886, dominating the second Salon of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, of which Seurat had been a founder in 1884.Exhibition History Seurat was extremely disciplined, always serious, and private to the point of secretiveness—for the most part, steering his own steady course. As a painter, he wanted to make a difference in the history of art and with La Grand Jatte, succeeded.Herbert, Robert L., Neil Harris, and Georges Seurat.
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He readily disclosed his birth month and day, October 20 (possibly because he shared it with Mickey Mantle), but never publicly acknowledged the year. For years, there was conjecture that his compulsive secretiveness stemmed from a fear that Yankees owner George Steinbrenner would think him too old and replace him, but Sheppard denied it. "[Steinbrenner] never questioned how old I was", he said. "He knew I was there every day for 57 years or so."Sheppard, About to Turn 99, Sounds as Good as Ever (October 12, 2009). Newsday.
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This incurs Cunxiao's suspicion and he checks with Bufan's 3 angling friends to no avail. Black Horse recalls Bufan's encounter and deduces that the latter has contracted aids. He tries to sound the latter out and seeing Bufan's secretiveness, starts to avoid him. Bufan tells his boss, Liang, the truth in the hope that the latter will understand and retain him (based on their relationship and knowledge about how aids is being passed), but worried about the supermarket's business and the employees’ safety, Liang wants Bufan to resign on his own accord.
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It is > considered with great secretiveness. Padre Romualdo, a missionary in > Daglipulli, succeeded in learning that the plant is a tall shrub called > latué which grows in the forests of the coastal mountains. and 110 years later Plowman could still observe > ...the occurrence of Latua and its use is a closely guarded secret > surrounded by much superstition, since the plant is employed primarily by > local shamans and sorcerers in their magical healing rites. Those familiar > with Latua and its properties are very protective of this knowledge and are > unwilling to discuss it with outsiders.
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Bunny dislikes Raffles's tendency to keep secrets about his plans from him, noting in "A Costume Piece" that Raffles has "the instinctive secretiveness of the inveterate criminal". Generally, Bunny gets along with Raffles. For example, in "Gentlemen and Players", Bunny states that it was a pleasure for him "to accompany Raffles to all his [cricket] matches, to watch every ball he bowled, or played, or fielded, and to sit chatting with him in the pavilion when he was doing none of these three things".Hornung, E. W. "Gentlemen and Players", The Amateur Cracksman. 706.
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Following the IWF's blacklisting of the Wikipedia article, the organisation's operating habits came under scrutiny. J.R. Raphael of PC World stated that the incident had raised serious free-speech issues, and that it was alarming that one non-governmental organisation was ultimately acting as the "morality police" for about 95% of UK's Internet users. Frank Fisher of The Guardian criticized the IWF for secretiveness and lack of legal authority, among other things, and noted that the blacklist could contain anything and that the visitor of a blocked address may not know if their browsing is being censored.
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Opus Dei is a personal prelature within the Roman Church that has been the subject of numerous controversies. Throughout its history, Opus Dei has been criticized from many parts, prompting journalists to describe it as "the most controversial force in the Catholic Church" and its founder Saint Josemaría Escrivá as a "polarizing" figure. Criticism of Opus Dei has centered on allegations of secretiveness, controversial and aggressive recruiting methods, strict rules governing members, elitism and misogyny, and support of or participation in authoritarian or right-wing governments, including the fascist Franco regime which governed in Spain until 1978.Moncada, Alberto.
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Like Perry Mason, Donald firmly stood behind his clients, even if they have not given him all the needed information, or even if he did not like them personally. He worked according to his own sense of honor and loyalty, giving fair treatment to those who treated him well, and not caring about those who treated him poorly. His unorthodox methods and secretiveness frequently frustrated Bertha, but in the end, they paid off in earnings for the agency. Donald often became romantically involved with beautiful women connected with his cases - but only after the case was closed - and by the next novel they had dropped out of his life.
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Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment and apathy. Other associated features include stilted speech, a lack of deriving enjoyment from most, if not all, activities, feeling as though one is an "observer" rather than a participant in life, an inability to tolerate emotional expectations of others, apparent indifference when praised or criticised, a degree of asexuality and idiosyncratic moral or political beliefs. Symptoms typically start in late childhood or adolescence. Several studies have reported an overlap, confusion or comorbidity with the autism spectrum disorder Asperger syndrome.
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Scientology can be seen as a UFO religion in which the existence of extraterrestrial entities operating unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are an element of belief. In this context, it is discussed in UFO Religions by Christopher Partridge, and The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions by James R. Lewis, while Susan Palmer draws several parallels with Raelianism.Palmer, Susan J. Aliens adored : Raël's UFO religion, Rutgers University Press, 2004, Gregory Reece, in his book UFO Religion: Inside flying saucer cults and culture, writes: > Scientology is unique within the UFO culture because of this secretiveness, > as well as because of the capitalist format under which they operate. > Scientology is also difficult to categorize.
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The sternum was opened and the internal organs examined. There was some discussion as to whether the cause of death was suffocation; it was reported that Corder's chest was seen to rise and fall for several minutes after he had dropped, and it was thought probable that pressure on the spinal cord had killed him. The skeleton was to be reassembled after the dissection and it was not possible to examine the brain, so the surgeons contented themselves with a phrenological examination of Corder's skull. The skull was asserted to be profoundly developed in the areas of "secretiveness, acquisitiveness, destructiveness, philoprogenitiveness, and imitativeness" with little evidence of "benevolence or veneration".
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Alongside the Gehlen Organisation, CIC had set up stay-behind networks in West Germany, who were supposed to stay put in the event of a Soviet invasion and transmit intelligence from behind enemy lines, some of which included ex-Nazis. Most of the networks were dismantled in the early 1950s. One example was an apparent equivalent to the East German Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth), the Bund Deutscher Jugend (BDJ, League of German Youth) seemed, at first, to be a youth group that countered Communist movements. Its increasing militancy and secretiveness about its financing, however, brought it to the attention of Georg August Zinn, the Socialist Minister President of Hesse.
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Throughout its history, Opus Dei has been criticized from many quarters, prompting journalists to describe Opus Dei as "the most controversial force in the Catholic Church" and founder Saint Josemaría Escrivá as a "polarizing" figure. Criticism of Opus Dei has centered on allegations of secretiveness, controversial and aggressive recruiting methods, strict rules governing members, elitism and misogyny, and support of or participation in authoritarian or right-wing governments, including the fascist Franco regime which governed in Spain until 1978. The mortification of the flesh practiced by some of its members is also criticized. Opus Dei has also been criticized for allegedly seeking independence and more influence within the Catholic Church.
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By that time Nietzsche appeared fully in the grip of a serious mental illness, and his mother Franziska decided to transfer him to a clinic in Jena under the direction of Otto Binswanger. In January 1889, they proceeded with the planned release of Twilight of the Idols, by that time already printed and bound. From November 1889 to February 1890, the art historian Julius Langbehn attempted to cure Nietzsche, claiming that the methods of the medical doctors were ineffective in treating Nietzsche's condition. Langbehn assumed progressively greater control of Nietzsche until his secretiveness discredited him. In March 1890, Franziska removed Nietzsche from the clinic and, in May 1890, brought him to her home in Naumburg.
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The first level consists of simple, general instructions and is called the "Solar Level" or the stage of "Revival and Rebirth". The essence of his instructions in this level is a perception of divine presence and revelation of love for The Lord or "living lovingly in the divine presence", based upon certain principles. The second level is called the "Astronomical Level", "ZX methods", or "Psychotechnology", which includes "creative dreaming", "spiritual communication", "teletransportation", "energy hunting" and "parallel experiencing". Fattahi does not give this training to the public, but to a selected group of his followers, who commit to strict rules such as anonymity, secretiveness, avoiding the use of their abilities for personal means and complying with some unusual conditions.
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The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 77% approval rating based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10, . David Armstrong, cinema critic for The San Francisco Examiner, stated in SF Gate that "Veteran British director Ken Loach continues to toil in the fields of a now largely, and unjustly, eclipsed tradition: European social realism. Working in a near-documentary style that emphasizes the grit of everyday life, the cynical secretiveness of political leaders and the nobility of small people with big dreams, Loach makes feature films of uncommon gravity and integrity". Philip French writing in The Observer said, "scripted by his regular collaborator, Jim Allen, Loach's movie is a visceral, emotional and intellectual experience, and among the finest films of the decade.".
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The game was described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most elaborate movie promotions ever conceived" that is "unprecedented even by Hollywood standards". The Atlantic cites it as the "first truly successful alternate reality game", and Polygon stated it was the first of its kind. The Beast was compared to The Blair Witch Project marketing campaign, though Knowles felt The Blair Witch Project campaign was more successful due to the broader appeal of the concept and the longer lifespan of the footage. Knowles believed that the game's popularity placed pressure on director Steven Spielberg and the studio to produce a film innovative enough to match the interest in the game, stating that the production's secretiveness raised expectations.
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Two further cardinal-nephews were added on 21 November 1468.Burkle-Young ("The election of Pope Paul II (1464)"): "The great number of cardinal-nephews created in the reigns of Sixtus IV, Alexander VI, and Julius II were testimony to the effectiveness of Paul II in opening the floodgates." In a sign of his increasing secretiveness and paranoia, he added two more cardinals secretly at the same consistory, and four more at the beginning of 1471, expecting to reveal them only in his testament. Tensions came to the fore when in attempting to eliminate redundant offices, Paul II proceeded to annul the College of Abbreviators, whose function it was to formulate papal documents; a storm of indignation arose, inasmuch as rhetoricians and poets with humanist training, had long been accustomed to benefiting from employment in such positions.
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Commenting on Pruitt's claim that his unusually extensive security expenses were related to his need for security, the New York Times said, "[The documents] show that the agency's close control of Mr. Pruitt's events is driven more by a desire to avoid tough questions from the public than by concerns about security, contradicting Mr. Pruitt's longstanding defense of his secretiveness."Pruitt's Dinner With Cardinal Accused of Abuse Was Kept Off Public Schedule, The New York Times, Eric Lipton & Lisa Friedman, May 11, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2018. A Freedom of Information Act request from the Sierra Club showed that between February and December 2017, Pruitt had only sent one e-mail to anyone outside EPA from his government e-mail account, leading to questions of whether Pruitt was using a private account to conduct government business.
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In a press release posted to his Senate web page, Espada emphasized that "I remain a staunch, reform Democrat. I have not switched parties," and that his actions were intended to help end the "gridlock, paralysis, secretiveness, threats and partisan politics" that the Senate had experienced in the previous months and that he was not part of "a power grab or a coup" but was working to build a coalition to serve the needs of all New Yorkers with open and transparent government.Statement by Senator Pedro Espada Jr., Office of Senator Pedro Espada Jr., June 8, 2009. Accessed June 8, 2009. However, when pressed by Wayne Barrett on June 11, 2009 as to whether he felt allegiance to the Democratic party, the Senator claimed he owed nothing to a political party that spent "hundreds of thousands" to defeat his past elections.
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This was one of several agencies within the vast Amt Rosenberg (Rosenberg Bureau or Rosenberg Office), the collective term for the various agencies controlled by Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg. However, Fleischhauer's personal role at Welt- Dienst declined as Germany neared the start of World War II. Researcher Carmen Callil reports that Fleischhauer's political radicalism was beginning to hurt the Third Reich's international image. By 1938, she writes, "Hitler was advised that Fleischhauer was placing Germany in embarrassing positions abroad, as he was the kind of ‘anti-Semite who pretends to see a threatening Jew behind every street corner of the world and who tries to deal with the matter in a psychosis of fear and secretiveness’." In late July 1939, August Schirmer, an Amt Rosenberg functionary who had headed the "American Section" of Welt-Dienst, took over publication of the periodical and its related operations.
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In addition to the questions raised about the depth of Escrivá's spirituality and theological thinking, his purported habits of secretiveness and elitism (although for the most part, Opus Dei faithful belong to the middle-to-low levels of society, in terms of education, income and social status), his alleged bad temper and ambition for social status and worldly luxuries, several other specific aspects of Escrivá's life and work have generated some criticism, particularly regarding his canonization by the Catholic Church. The sources of criticism include his alleged private statements in defence of Adolf Hitler, collaboration by members of Opus Dei with right-wing political causes (especially during General Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain), Escrivá's request for the rehabilitation in his favour of an aristocratic title and allegations that he maintained bad relations with other Catholic officials, of whom he could be very critical in private.
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Although Boas felt that scientists have a responsibility to speak out on social and political problems, he was appalled that they might involve themselves in disingenuous and deceitful ways. Thus, in 1919, when he discovered that four anthropologists, in the course of their research in other countries, were serving as spies for the American government, he wrote an angry letter to The Nation. It is perhaps in this letter that he most clearly expresses his understanding of his commitment to science: > A soldier whose business is murder as a fine art, a diplomat whose calling > is based on deception and secretiveness, a politician whose very life > consists in compromises with his conscience, a businessman whose aim is > personal profit within the limits allowed by a lenient law—such may be > excused if they set patriotic deception above common everyday decency and > perform services as spies. They merely accept the code of morality to which > modern society still conforms.
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According to Ethan Haimo, understanding of Schoenberg's twelve-tone work has been difficult to achieve owing in part to the "truly revolutionary nature" of his new system, misinformation disseminated by some early writers about the system's "rules" and "exceptions" that bear "little relation to the most significant features of Schoenberg's music", the composer's secretiveness, and the widespread unavailability of his sketches and manuscripts until the late 1970s. During his life, he was "subjected to a range of criticism and abuse that is shocking even in hindsight" . Watschenkonzert, caricature in Die Zeit from 6 April 1913 Schoenberg criticized Igor Stravinsky's new neoclassical trend in the poem "Der neue Klassizismus" (in which he derogates Neoclassicism, and obliquely refers to Stravinsky as "Der kleine Modernsky"), which he used as text for the third of his Drei Satiren, Op. 28 . Schoenberg's serial technique of composition with twelve notes became one of the most central and polemical issues among American and European musicians during the mid- to late-twentieth century.
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In July 1974, the Investors Chronicle published an exposé on Lowson, in which it revealed his financial empire was a "tangle of cross shareholdings, based on some 100 trading and industrial companies throughout the world, owned and controlled, at the end, through 14 often interrelated investment trusts." It was revealed that in 1972, Sir Denys bought shares of the National Group, which he controlled, for just 62 pence each and resold them within months for £8.67 each, for an estimated personal profit of £5 million. After an investigation requested by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, inspectors accused Sir Denys of "grave mismanagement" of his companies "to obtain very substantial gain for himself and his family." Sir Denys apologised and promised to make substantial repayments, while his legal counsel blamed his mistakes on "age, ill-health, obstinacy and secretiveness rather than to any intent to deceive" — an explanation rejected by inspectors.
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The > problem was perhaps that he was a successful, worldly author who played > polo, moved in fashionable circles and even appeared as an actor in Warren > Beatty's Reds. He seemed to have had an adventurous and rather kinky > sexuality which, to many, made him all the more suspect. D.G. Myers responded to Blacker's assertions that much of Kosinski's behaviour was the result of "compensating for 'the hollowness at the core of his being'" in his review of Jerzy Kosiński: A Biography by James Park Sloan: > This theory explains much: the reckless driving, the abuse of small dogs, > the thirst for fame, the fabrication of personal experience, the > secretiveness about how he wrote, the denial of his Jewish identity. 'There > was a hollow space at the center of Kosiński that had resulted from denying > his past,' Sloan writes, 'and his whole life had become a race to fill in > that hollow space before it caused him to implode, collapsing inward upon > himself like a burnt-out star.
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