Word: clamor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have ever admired Styron's technique, and all the tedious overwriting remains intact, the words like "thaumaturges" and "matutinal," the heavy-handed imagery: "A truck's wheel striking a pothole on the street made a clamor like the slamming of the gates of hell." These characters talk a lot, long bloated monologues that go on for pages. And there's at least one passage that has no place in a hardcover of any kind, much less a major novel...
...while it is easy enough to blame the Government, the public's "me first" spirit is fouling up matters too. Truckers are now demanding unrestricted access to diesel fuel, while farmers get all they want. Simultaneously, other consumers clamor for exemptions for any gas-rationing system or demand that heating-oil stocks be built up to guard against a cold winter. There is no way that refineries can give farmers and truckers unlimited supplies, turn out maximum supplies of gasoline and build heating-oil inventories?and the Government has failed to set clear priorities...
...board should take great care before making any marked change. As he told TIME: "We must avoid the unpredictability of monetary policy and moderate the swings of interest rates. Last summer there was criticism that if the Federal Reserve tightened money, we would wreck the economy. Now the clamor is the other way, telling us to do more. We must resist those temptations and have more nerve and sense of responsibility to look at the final good for the nation and not to our popularity from week to week...
...remote. Foreign psychiatrists, some of them unlicensed, have flocked to these institutions. Many, to be sure, do extremely competent work. Spanish-speaking doctors, for example, have been able to provide better levels of care for Hispanic patients. Nonetheless, the overall quality of these foreign doctors has raised a clamor for legislation by Congress that would stop the influx of poorly trained aliens. If it passes, the state institutions may be left with fewer psychiatrists of any kind. That could be calamitous; for even with these foreign-trained doctors, officials estimate that the nation will be short 9,000 psychiatrists...
...point. It's logical but not terribly convincing (especially considering that the whole spiel was an attempt to bum a quarter. "Just think--another quarter you won't have to own."). His preaching aside, people in these times still clamor to own just about everything they can possibly imagine. Cars, homes, Cuisinarts, video-cassette recorders--and if you can't afford it, then you simply buy it on credit, borrow money, get a loan, try our EZ Payment plan, Master Charge it, put it on the tab, Leo--anything. It seems the inevitable extension of the consumer...