Word: echoing
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...young White House aide in the Cabinet Room there was an echo from the past in that message. During his campaign and the transition, Ronald Reagan had constantly reminded his troops of the difficulty of nudging the Federal Government and its entrenched bureaucracy onto a new course. The important fact is that the President has not yet yielded in conviction or purpose, two ingredients of his early success. But now he seeks something more...
...other complaints about how Harvard has changed seem to echo his fears about the modernization of Ireland, the other isolated and traditional place he has known. "Students will ask me with a smirk if there was truly a time when there were parietal rules--when you couldn't have a young woman in your room with the door closed, when you had to sign in. They ask why people ever put up with that sort of thing. But in those days the gates to the Houses were always wide open, and there was no fear of being mugged. I think...
...when astronomers talk about objects as strange and remote as quasars, about cosmic enigmas like black holes and the faint radio noises that may be an echo of the creation, an ordinary planet, even the second largest in the sun's family, hardly seems likely to awe or surprise. Yet, remarkably, Saturn still has that power, as the Voyager 1 spacecraft so dramatically showed last November. Swooping within 78,000 miles of the luminous ringed sphere, the little robot sent back a collection of full-color images as dazzling as any ever received from deep space...
...fact that such national jubilation could take place during a time of social turmoil is a moving tribute to the British national character-and a sign of how the monarchy still holds the country together." Indeed. To echo the most common of all summaries of the royal wedding, one must truly say: Jolly good show...
...write about the Old World seems even riskier. An émigré issues a warning that is to echo down to the days of Philip Roth: "The scribblers here try to persuade the reader that the shtetl was a paradise full of saints. So comes along someone from the very place and he says 'stuff and nonsense!' They'll excommunicate you here, but don't be alarmed...