Word: echoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Significantly, the majority support for the President's policies is equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. Some voters from both parties echo hardline, hawkish positions, saying that the U.S. should escalate the action even further if that is what is needed to win the war. "Fight it and get it over with," says Mrs. Wilma ("Billie") Renner, a Lawrenceburg, Ind., housewife and a Republican. "We're being pushed around overseas and at home. I'm disgusted with people not backing President Nixon." Walter Glamp, a Dublin, Md., high school counselor who voted for Edmund Muskie...
...they soon found themselves at odds both with the majority of their people, who refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah, and with Gentile Christians, who eschewed Jewish law. What is new about the Jesus Jews, besides their numbers, is the degree of their evangelistic.fervor. In an attempt to echo that fervor, the long-established American Board of Missions to the Jews has run full-page newspaper ads crowing about the number of Jews "wearing 'that smile' nowadays!" Last week New York Rabbi William Berkowitz took his own ad headed "Wipe That Smile Off," saying that there...
...fostered the notion of the Two Cultures has now encountered a third: the youth culture. Encountered, though, is not quite the word. On the evidence of The Malcontents, C.P. Snow seems to have heard about youth from a distance and caught only a faint echo. Bomb throwers? Draft dodgers? Snow's radical cell of students is exercised about a racist slumlord who happens to be an influential Tory M.P.; they are plotting to subject him to what, for the English, still seems to be the worst of fates: public exposure...
...whose source appears to be an un reasonable sense of inadequacy. He seems truly tortured by the world as it is and by his inability as an artist to change it. The healing Christian love, so strongly preached in the earlier writings, proved inadequate but remains as a rhetorical echo. The righteous, cleansing fire he summoned for "next time" is now only a vague and sinister "shape of the wrath to come." He talks of morality as a living thing, but he is crushed by the truth that the struggle for political freedom is decided by raw power...
...past. George McGovern has risen into the seemingly untenable position of frontrunner, calling for shows of "massive support" in order to maintain it. George Wallace has become the most influential third force the campaign has seen, and his calls to "Send Them A Message" have found their echo in the votes of the many previously unrepresented who find him the only true choice offered in American politics. Both of these men combine a broad populist program with an earthy, honest approach, and the parallelism of their success can be traced to basic similarities. The effect of both on the politics...