Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Letting judges roll around like untethered cannons seems indefensible at a time when the public clamor is all for accountability in government. Yet, before judges are judged too harshly, it is necessary to understand how they fit into the political process and became so powerful...
...next best thing; that foxy wizard of Itmanship himself, est's own Werner Erhard, has materialized on stage. The roar of welcome goes on as he lays claim to the spotlight, hoisting himself onto a director's chair, a gray-flanneled leg tucked underneath him. The clamor trails off only when his words and pale gaze begin to spill across the crowd, conveying the improbable intimacy that seems to be the gift of all magnetic evangelists. It is the sound, not the content that mesmerizes, and before long he is saying, "Nothing is going to enlighten you. What...
...even the prescient co-author of the Federalist papers might be amazed at the abundant fulfillment of his vision by Americans of the late 1970s. The nation has entered a period of ascendant factionalism, a time when the larger desires of society can scarcely be heard for the insistent clamor of its numberless segments...
...name game is also growing ever more trendy and even desperate as more and more people clamor for attention in a please-notice-me society. It is merely ironic that businesses with names like the No Name Bar and The Chocolate Soup (a children's clothes store) now so proliferate that only an innocent would suffer a double take on learning that an orchestra called The Widespread Depression happened to be performing last week at a nightspot called The Other End. That is in Greenwich Village, where some runners trade at a store called The Athlete's Foot...
...thousands of ordinary New Yorkers, the biggest problem afoot has been not fiscal but fecal. Unlike New York City's money troubles, the spread of dog excrement on the streets and parks long seemed insoluble and irreversible. Last week, after years of fruitless public clamor for an ordinance to ban canine littering, a state law went into effect that would levy a $25 fine on dog owners who let their pets defecate in any public area without cleaning up the act; the law applies to cities of more than 400,000. In New York City, 2,500 municipal workers...