Word: counterpoints
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...Even if it had been planned, no Brechtian genius could have staged the audience participation better. Before Nixon was 60 seconds into his speech, the platoon of hecklers began to shout: "Tell us about Kent State!" "Right on!" "Make more bombs!" The vast majority of the audience began a counterpoint of loud and sustained applause. Nixon, hearing the radicals, hurried his speech, with half-stops in his monotone. But his lines about "the willingness to listen to somebody without trying to shout him down" summoned up thunderous ovations...
Chabrol again proves that he is a master of brutal counterpoint. Corpse No. 2, for example, is discovered on a cliff when blood drips onto a little girl's sandwich below...
...already sold 700,000 copies, and has a firm web-hold on Top 40 radio audiences from coast to coast. In Detroit, for example, WXYZ's Dick Purtan plays it regularly during "tubby time" for kids and adults alike, who seem unable to resist its splash-splash counterpoint, quack-quack obbligato, and cheerful pop-style parody of the 1930s Hit Parade...
...Counterpoint. "It is time to stand up and speak about what is right with America," Nixon said-and he returned to his much-quoted election-night theme: "Rather than have America torn apart, let's bring Americans together." He was no Pollyanna on race: "We have come a long way, but we have a long way to go." He had no blind law-and-order message: "If we ask people to respect the laws," both the laws and those who enforce them must deserve respect. Most of all, he spoke to the young. "Let us tell young Americans...
...rhetorical masterpiece, but it sounded a counterpoint to Nixon's injudicious remark about youthful "bums" and Vice President Agnew's continual assaults on dissenters. The response sent Nixon off to California warmed to the core. If he is lucky, some of the good feeling may last even after he returns to Washington early next week. In the meantime, there is somber business to attend to-even in the California sunshine. This week the President will deliver a written report on Cambodia timed to coincide with his June 30 deadline for the removal of U.S. troops, and he will...