Word: declaim
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These are the politer ploys in what has become a rather uncivil war. Fighting fire with ire, bumper stickers declaim: KISSING A SMOKER IS LIKE LICKING A DIRTY ASHTRAY. A bellicose lapel button declares: SMOKERS STINK. Since slogans do not extinguish cigarettes, many antis become vigilantes. A scourge at some business conventions these days is a self-appointed enforcer who goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker...
...SOURCEBOOK'S CRITICISM of men is even more to the point. In the first place, it is nonsense for men to say they have nothing to lose from a movement dedicated to eradicating male privilege. Men are the enemy, after all. Furthermore, males who proudly declaim their own "liberation"--meaning their rejection of sexual stereotypes--stumble noticeably between theory and practice, especially when practice involves concrete sacrifices. "Most women find out that a little bit of crying does not root out the deeply embedded patriarch," the Sourcebook comments dryly. This is not to say that men can never be legitimate...
...whether or not the bicentennial evokes any sort of noble American past it is almost sure to give the masses what they want--a show. President Ford is in town--he spoke at Old North Church last night while protestors demonstrated outside--and he will declaim patriotic sentiments from the Concord bridge this morning...
...scenario provided by the Bard: one hapless critic, for example, has his heart cut out (the pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice), another is stabbed to death on the Ides of March. Worst torture of all, perhaps, is that the poor struggling wretches must listen to Lionheart declaim passages from the pertinent play before he kills them. Besides Price, who is at his most enjoyably fulsome, the large cast includes a bounty of fine British players: Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Milo O'Shea, Eric Sykes and, as those viperous but ill-fated critics, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne...
...Just declaim a few lines from Otheller...