Word: caterwaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caterwaul & Caricature. The war has sundered the moral and political life of the U.S. as deeply as any crisis in this century. Within both major parties politicians have at least had a traditional forum from which to endorse or denounce the course of U.S. policy. Not so with the nation's private citizens who are critical of the war. Lacking an organized, effectual medium through which to voice their protests, dissenters ranging from Maoists to hippies, from middle-aged suburbanites in SANE to adolescent hotspurs in the Students for a Democratic Society have stormed Pentagon and draft board, marched...
...Science & Industry? TIME has dispelled all doubt [Sept. 3]. The glad tidings that Claudia Cassidy is getting the hell out is easily our cultural apogee. From here on, the only direction we can go is up. Paint her as purple as her prose, change her name to Claudia Caterwaul, and turn her loose in the emerald pastures we have all, for endless years, prayed she would soon retire...
...items of Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...