Word: echoeing
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...entertained. The teach-in was not the prelude to organized action; this was not a meeting to educate people so they could convert others. The teach-in excited people, but gave them no productive channels for their enthusiasm. The speakers shot their words into the void. The echo reverberated as applause...
...effort to confront political and economic problems with force. It exacerbates economic distress by imposing the burden of large armies, and intensifies rebellion by repression." He scorns military-assistance teams trained specially to get involved in the life of the country where they are stationed: "This is a distant echo of the white man's burden, of our smug belief we can govern other people's lives better than they...
...system by which each piece of information is sold bit by bit. And they have not even been able to do that successfully; at present there are at least thirteen different video cartridge/ cassette type systems, all of which are incompatible (see chart). All manufacturers seem to echo the voice of Gerald Citro, Marketing Manager of North American Philips, who says in Variety, "Standardization will help avoid confusion on the part of the consumer, reduce the price, and encourage the development of new markets." But while all manufacturers agree that standardization is the key to marketing videocassettes, they continue...
Ingres arrived in Rome in 1806 with a scholarship he had won to the French Academy there. He was 26, already known as a Parisian prodigy; he came to a town whose social and intellectual life seems to have struck him as a mere echo of what he had known in Napoleon's Paris. A few weeks after settling into the Villa Medici, he wrote to his fiancee in Paris, Julie Forestier: "I cordially loathe Rome ... it is very beautiful, but, in a few words, everything is provincial compared to the great city of Paris." Rome slowly seduced...
...Neal does an admirable job of acting, but Ali MacGraw may have performed a miracle for Hollywood. She is an echo of a time when Celluloid City really was the dream factory, when people truly went to the movies every weekend. For Tinsel Town, she represents not only an irretrievable past but a plausible future. To moviemakers, she is the Girl Who Made Love Story Happen after six major studios had turned it down?the actress who was moved, she says, by the script's "straight, basic, clean emotion." She is today's closest approximation of the old-style star...