Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interviewers polled two samples-1,650 members of a cross section of the entire population and 1,118 national and community leaders. The second group included only public officials, chiefs of minority and dissident organizations, business executives, editors, leaders of educational and voluntary institutions-those whose collective voice registers loudest in public debate...
...indignant teachers pointed to a 1967 government report showing that over the past two decades, eleven-year-olds have increased the rate at which they learn to read by more than 24%. Meanwhile, a new stress on writing and new math has livened up teaching throughout the country. The loudest reaction, perhaps, came from Education Secretary Edward Short who declared: "The publication of the Black Paper was one of the blackest days for education in the last 100 years...
Hokanson's response turned out to be a politically unwise move. When the Business School finally did hold a mass meeting of about 1000 students, Hokanson received the loudest hisses of the day-quite a feat in itself considering the circumstances. Many of the Business School students dislike the type of leadership which has characterized his administration. Whether he is asked to resign or only censured. Hokanson should probably take it upon himself to bow out of the Business School's political scene...
Constantine FitzGibbon gets his loudest polemic laughs from dead trends and left leftovers. A translator-novelist-critic of Irish and American descent and European education, he now lives in Ireland. His novel When the Kissing Had to Stop, a political cautionary tale of a Russian takeover from a fellow-traveling British government, made him a bogeyman to left-leaning intellectuals. It also won him a Communist Party accolade-"fascist hyena...
...violence and the quick buck. It fused the need to massacre twelve hundred thousand American Indians and ten million American buffalo, the lynching bees, the draft riots, bread riots, gold riots and race riots, the constant wars, the largest rats in the biogest slums, boxing and football, the loudest music, the most strident and exploitative press with the entire wonderful promise of tomorrow and tomorrow, always dragging the great nation downward...