Word: louders
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...audience started applauding before the song was over. Tom looked up scornfully as if to say, "Not now children." Then, song finished, he motioned to the crowd to applaud louder and louder. He and Veitch laughed...
...they staged a church service in the "Hanoi Hilton." Their North Vietnamese captors called it "the riot." On that day the Fourth Combined P.O.W. Wing ordered a mass prayer service in defiance of camp regulations prohibiting meetings of more than 20 men. Ordered to stop, they prayed even louder. When the wing leaders were taken outside the cell block, those inside broke into The Star-Spangled Banner...
...small for the scale of modern commerce, as the uncertain flight of the Concorde shows. So far, they are being asked to pull together only enough to deal with a limited range of needs: to organize monetary stability, to control multinational corporations, to counter Japanese competition, to have a louder voice in the new multi-polar world. What might Europe expect beyond these narrow economic assignments? The seers disagree...
Jesus freaks are gathered at the corner, mixing freely with other louder groups. They carry the perennial banners of militancy, each inscribed with the device, Liberation. Over it are the words Gay, Black, Women's, Chicano and People's. These are the remnants of a great tidal wave of protest that broke in Rip's absence, still sporadically coursing through the streets and campuses. The year 1968 was at once its crest and ebb. Rip was gone when Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis and when 172 cities went up in smoke, when 3,500 were...
...college town "sheer hell." Only four months ago, the 65-year-old poet escaped from New York to spend his last years quietly at his Oxford alma mater. Imagine his surprise to find the town of Oxford "five times as crowded and the noise of the traffic six times louder." And that isn't all. Auden recently had $117 stolen from him. Sighed he: "Ironically, I had to leave New York and come to Oxford to get robbed." After his comments kicked up a transatlantic furor, Auden, anxious to regain some measure of privacy, hastened to add, "I have...