Word: declaim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ONCE again, on main streets and Broadway, in village halls, Statehouses and the national capital, at coliseums, campuses and churches, Americans turned out to march, argue and declaim over Viet Nam. The spectacle in many ways resembled the October Moratorium, but with a major difference. This time, answering Richard Nixon's call, the opponents of dissent also demonstrated in force, making a counterattack and a purposeful counterpoint to the antiwar protesters. For the President's "silent majority," Veterans Day provided a natural opportunity to sound the trumpets of loyalty and patriotism as defined by Nixon. No less patriotic by their...
...text for all it is worth, and most of the principals are equal to the task. As an ensemble, they share only one common fault, perhaps an inevitable consequence of the production's drive for lucidity: at one time or another, most of the actors show a tendency to declaim rather than converse. As a result, the overall pacing of dialogue is sometimes slowed, and an occasional moment of insight or laughter is dimmed by pretentious delivery. Far more often, however, the line readings succeed in translating Shaw's stylized dialogue exchanges into natural and convincing scenes...
HENRIK: Why, Sir Director McBain, did you parade my characters so stiffly across the stage? They seldom move and often declaim. Why did you work so hard to cudgel the wonderment out of the play...
Turn to Fudge. Last summer, Tate imposed a state of limited emergency as a precaution against racial violence and fully backed Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, who mobilized massive force at the least hint of trouble. Having dominated the front pages all summer, Tate is now able to declaim: "While other cities were being burned, sacked and pillaged, Philadelphia had law and order." When Tate demands to know if Specter, as mayor, would keep the controversial Rizzo in office, it is the D.A.'s turn to fudge. To take a stand on Rizzo would alienate either those who considered...
...tough-minded Amy Lowell, smoking the cigars that shocked Boston in the early 1920s. As a teenager, Amy wrote in her diary the frank confession, "I am fat, ugly, inconspicuous and dull: to say nothing of a very bad temper." As an adult, she intermittently feared revolution and would declaim at dinner...