Word: clamoring
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...than the current system implies they are, more likely to benefit from similar experiences, more in search of knowledge about ideas and things than about themselves. No doubt whoever is going to Harvard when all this happens will accept it, and no doubt high school seniors will continue to clamor to become whatever it is Harvard wants to try to make of them. But there is more on the line than that now: the question is not so much whether Rosovsky can remake Harvard College as whether when he speaks, America will listen...
...clearly chose Washington for the unveiling to impress Government policymakers. They have doubted that Detroit could respond quickly to public clamor for low-cost transportation, but the Chevette was rushed into production in just 18 months. It will go on sale next month, with the initial marketing effort in cities that have been strongholds for Datsun (now the No. 1 selling import) and Volkswagen. GM's main target city: Los Angeles, where 49% of all new cars sold in August were built overseas. During the next twelve months, GM hopes to sell about 275,000 Chevettes, enough to help...
...permeated with a casual, offhand rightness about material, color and meetings of shape, but it is not polemical. No proposition about the future of art is being shoved in one's face. Hence its unlikeness to New York painting in the '60s, to that clamor of nonnegotiable demands on the viewer's eye and sense of history. This is not a matter of good or bad, only of tone of voice, and Smith's discourse is so controlled, so free of aesthetic cliquishness and so fastidious in its loyalty to painting as a still valid medium...
...programs ready to aid parochial schools. His reward: Nixon ordered the FBI to investigate him. During Watergate, Schorr became TV's most visible investigative reporter and shared three Emmys with his colleagues. Last February Schorr moved into new territory by reporting President Ford's fear that the clamor to investigate the CIA might reveal the agency's role in foreign assassination plots. Two months later, former CIA Director Richard Helms denounced Schorr's reporting as "lies" and called him "Killer Schorr, Killer Schorr." Recent disclosures by the Senate Intelligence Operations Committee have largely vindicated Schorr...
...noteworthy that we hear no clamor from these women to enter an Episcopal convent, where the work is total self-sacrifice and unceasing prayer -never with public display and constant news media coverage...