Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barbara's munitions-manufacturer father, who preaches a religion of "money and gunpowder." He insists that the worst crime of all is poverty. They who disdain wealth and prate morality are hypocrites. "Money is the most important thing in the world," says Shaw in his Preface, "It is the counter that enables life to be distributed socially." It is better to be a wicked rich man than a poor honest one. The former has power that can be turned to good; the latter has only snivelling weakness...
During the speeches, several members of the Pagans, a Washington motorcycle club, climbed into the front rows and began shouting. It was the only attempt at active interference by the 500 counter-demonstrators who showed...
...National Liberation Front tried to carry some Viet Cong flags to a spot two blocks from the White House, where they planned to demonstrate. Gottlieb had asked them to keep the flags out of the parade. Possibly trying to avoid his moniters, they inadvertently walked through the crowd of counter-pickets...
They were halfway through when a voice cried, "Ready-get 'em." Four counter-pickets grabbed the demonstrators and Eddie Summers, a junior from Temple University, made off with a flag. While passers-by yelled, "Burn it, spit on it," Summers applied a borrowed cigarette lighter to the flag. It wouldn't burn. He tried to tear it. It wouldn't tear. He spat on it. Then police, who broke up the fight and then watched the attempted flag burning, moved in and took the banner away...
...assume his mantle: "His voice is exactly like mine-uncannily so." The resurgence of baroque music, Deller thinks, is led by the younger generation, who "have chosen to sidestep the romantics. They no longer want their ears invaded by the oozy wash of sound. They prefer instead to hear counter point, to hear the architecture of the music. It is a restatement of a fundamental truth that speaks across the centuries." And somehow it speaks most truly in the lofty blue-yonder voice of the countertenor...