Word: louder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mature people gravitate to mature subject matters. Situation comedies in the '50s and '60s made a statement by omission louder than any I could have made," television writer and producer Norman Lear said yesterday...
...party over, I headed for the phones, not quite sure of what had happened. Maybe Father McLaughlin had a point with his theory about "middle-class issues," but it seemed that the boos for Dukakis were just a little bit louder than the cheers for Proposition 13 and the death penalty (cheering for the death penalty is, I decided, a uniquely American political pastime) and abortion funding cut-offs. Maybe--but it didn't matter that night, as I headed across the street, passing a happy soul weaving under the influence of dollar-ninety Scotch. A soft breeze carried with...
...words came across in muffled streams of Russian, with the simultaneous translation intruding a second later, and much louder, over the public address system. The two grated together, making it difficult to hear...
LATE LAST APRIL, during a week when thousands of students marched and chanted, imploring the Harvard Corporation to end its investments in companies that do business with South Africa, The Crimson faced a familiar ethical dilemma. As the chants grew louder, as University officials appeared ever more supercilious by their silence, as tempers neared a flashpoint, executives of the paper fought against pressures from both sides. Leaders of the demonstration recalling the paper's frequent editorial endorsement of their position, demanded more: cover us more favorably, they said, put us in an even better light, work more closely with...
Last week, however, in a decision that might have brought louder cries of protest from journalists had they not been so busy covering the Bakke ruling, the Supreme Court said that the press has no more First Amendment rights to enter a public facility than does any private citizen. "The right to receive ideas and information is not the issue," wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger. "The issue is a claimed special privilege of access which," the court went on, "is not essential to guarantee the freedom to communicate or publish...