Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a senseless piece of violence--why all the fuss? Was the shock expressed by all Italy, and especially Rome, merely political propaganda of the PCI, melodramatics of the intellectual elite, and bloodthirsty scan-dalmongering on the part of the greater public? Of course all this contributed to the clamor, but there was something else behind the strong reaction of the students who marched through Rome in mourning, the political activists who pasted up posters all over the city, tthe journalists who analyzed the significance of his death in newspapers of left and right, and the people who argued...
...citizens. Yet the government's capacity to act and satisfy is finite, and the limits are in view. Interest groups-farmers, veterans, labor-have always been part of the American political scene. But they have multiplied as environmentalists, educationalists, welfare recipients and many others have joined the clamor for funds and taken to the streets for attention. In the process, Bell thinks, everybody is pushing up dangerously against everybody else, a development that threatens the destruction of "American exceptionalism"-the nation's ability to mediate peacefully among conflicting interests by constitutional means...
...these reasons, Nixon found himself con fronted by the powers of the Eastern Establishment. Not in a well-synchronized plot, but through simple momentum, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Rockefeller foundation, and Common Cause joined in the clamor that resulted in Nixon's downfall. (Sale suggests in a footnote that the break-in itself may have been deliberately bungled by James McCord on orders from the old Rockefeller-CIA network which sought revenge for Nixon's conversion of the Company into his personal political tool...
...magazines and then into the rest of the press and television. At more than 500 "speak-outs" and conferences on rape in the past year alone and at more than 150 rape crisis centers set up by the feminist movement since 1973, women have been raising an increasing clamor for reform...
...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...