Word: louder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue of political espionage in the 1972 presidential campaign has persisted-a tangled, melodramatic business, occurring like a backstage fistfight, somewhere still in the margins of the voters' consciousness. The matter remained a volatile presence, however, and last week the din of charges and countercharges grew louder as Republicans and Democrats exchanged bitter words over the implications of the Watergate investigation. Without challenging a single point of reported fact, the President's men denied any wrongdoing and attacked the press for printing the stories. Even so, there were new revelations of White House connections with a fat slush...
...more for food than for hard goods, so price controls have had the subtle effect of benefiting the agricultural sector of the economy at the expense of the industrial sector. Such disparities have led some disenchanted eaters, like AFL-CIO President George Meany, to think harder and speak up louder about putting controls on raw agricultural prices. Meany is irked that wage increases in the last year have been held well within the Administration's 5.5% guideline, while food prices have grown as high as an elephant's eye. Says he: "They're still playing around with...
...indoor performance. Richter's ensemble numbers 140 singles and orchestral personnel; Bach's optimum number was less than half that. The Bach Choir's is a modern one, a product of the great symphonies after 1800. Between Bach's time and our own, instruments were generally engineered to be louder and more precise in pitch. Those listening to a cantata in the 1730's were not steeped in a tradition of massive sound; the scale of volume-production then was a fraction of what it is now. The result is a real-scale performance of old music that may sound...
Though the strong surge is a healthy economic sign, it is stirring a controversy over whether earnings are growing too fast, especially for a controlled period in which wages are not expanding nearly as rapidly. The argument is bound to become louder as the election approaches and will probably reach a crescendo next year, when an exceptionally high number of contracts with important unions are due to be renegotiated, including those of the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers...
Complaining on Mr. Nader's level may help in the long run. But in the mean time, griping in the supermarket is like griping in the Army: the louder you shout, the worse it gets...