Word: clangor
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...buses have voices, doors and elevators speak. The answering machine talks to us, and for us, somewhere above the din of the TV; the Walkman preserves a public silence but ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument...
...bells pealed throughout San Francisco to mark the city's survival and recovery. But a few churches declined to join in the commemoration, which had been requested by Mayor Art Agnos, because the reverberations from the tolling might have brought cracked belfries tumbling down. About 90 minutes after the clangor of the bells died out came the ominous rumbling of yet another aftershock, one of thousands that have done little discernible damage but are likely to keep rattling the nerves of residents for weeks...
...legal staffs. When they do go outside these days, they often shop around, using firms on a deal-to-deal basis. After a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the right of lawyers to advertise, once reticent partnerships became increasingly willing to toot their own horns. In the unaccustomed clangor of competition, the bonds of collegiality that held a firm together have withered. "If you're going to exist in this competitive environment," says Boston Attorney Richard Csaplar of the 90-lawyer Csaplar & Bok, "you've got to root out less productive seniors...
...rising clangor of prelate protests and pronouncements has caused consternation inside and outside the church. Some are critical of tactics. Columnist William F. Buckley sympathizes with his church's bishops on abortion but thinks they made a serious mistake in embracing one particular bill. There are disputes over the seemliness of clerical protest vigils and sit-ins. "Disgusting," says Attorney Ed ward Riordan, a parishioner in Worcester, Mass. "They will change no minds by picketing or being arrested." When Arch bishop Hunthausen termed Seattle's new nuclear-submarine base an "American Auschwitz," Navy Secretary John Lehman, moral...
...heat heat from fiery red ingots rose in shimmering waves, and smoke drifted through the air, as Senator Edward Kennedy stood on a platform in the middle of the Universal-Cyclops Specialty Steel mill outside Pittsburgh. Shouting through a bullhorn above the clangor of the plant, he told a crowd of 200 workers that President Carter's proposed budget cuts would reduce safety inspections of steel mills. Roared Kennedy: "I'm not going to let them take that protection away from the steelworkers. He [Carter] ought to come out of that Rose Garden and talk with some of those steelworkers...