Day 1,678: revile, nadir, proceeds, blatant

During that time the country has had 34 prime ministers, including plenty of forgettable faces and reviled figures.

This historic nadir comes as Mr Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party (ldp), which has held power almost continuously ever since its formation in 1955, faces its biggest financial scandal in decades. The party’s “factions”, or institutionalised groupings of lawmakers, have been accused of systematically under-reporting ticket sales at fundraisers and kicking back the proceeds to members.

A little mistake may go unnoticed but a blatant error demands attention.

Japan’s ruling party is in crisis

Artwork of the day 
Nadir Afonso
Nadir Afonso Rodrigues
Born: December 4, 1920; Chaves, Portugal
Nationality: Portuguese
Art Movement: Concrete Art (Concretism), Kinetic art, Op Art
Genre: abstract
Field: painting, architecture
Teachers: Fernand Leger
Art institution: École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_Afonso

Word of the day 
revile: to criticize someone strongly, or say unpleasant things to or about someone:
nadir: the worst moment, or the moment of least hope and least achievement:
proceeds: the amount of money received from a particular event or activity or when something is sold:
blatant: obvious; conspicuous, offensively loud 

Quote of the day
“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche