Word: clamorment
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...course, you can love America wherever you happen to live. But at home, right now, one's love comes in sudden bursts, like pain or memory, amid the daily clamor. What do you miss by not being in the U.S. at this time? You miss the landscapes of your real or imaginary home, whether the hills of Pennsylvania or Virginia, the fogs of San Francisco or Nantucket. You miss the inconvenience, the drabness, the dirt of our cities, and the grim, rather moving determination that something must be done about "the environment," a term that Americans are beginning...
...American candle that when burned gives off the scent of (Right on, Mom!) apple pie. Most normal, if not atavistic, of all, the Saturday Evening Post vowed to publish again for Middle America (see THE PRESS), complete with a Norman Rockwell painting on the first cover. Once the election clamor had died, Americans returned to the triumphs and disappointments of a world in which little had changed...
...Uncle Sucker." The surge of protectionism is a consequence of the nation's economic woes. Inflation has driven up prices of many U.S.-made products, leading manufacturers to clamor for barriers against imports. Rising unemployment has swung the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to the protectionist side; its lobbyists buttonholed Ways & Means members outside H208 last week to repeat time-worn restrictionist arguments. Sample from Union Lobbyist Liz Jaeger, who once championed free trade but is now campaigning for shoe quotas: "Shoes are vital for defense. An army has to have shoes to march on, doesn't it?" The A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...order clamor has yet to do much for police morale?and is unlikely to. Criminologists, lawyers and thoughtful police officials are gradually recognizing that police problems go deeper than Supreme Court decisions that allegedly handcuff cops, and beyond the constant risk of sudden death in defense of unappreciative citizens. Nor is the real trouble the continuing emergence of new social abrasions?the mushrooming growth of hard-drug addiction, the bombings of urban buildings (four embassies in Washington were blasted last week), the crescendo of riots and demonstrations unmatched since the 1930s...
WHEN WE listen to Nixon and Agnew- a sullied mutton and an interlarded projectile- this business of words and this responsibility of poetry presses excruciatingly. American language has never been more cruptive and strident. This is a time of clamor. If is not that words have lost their meanings, but that we have lost the words themselves. We have lost ourselves. Language is becoming just another commodity, subject to the rapacious degradation of competition, advertisement, and engorgement. Someone's voice breaks, then someone's head, then someone's heart. The sensitive man can only say: "If I scream, you will...