Word: murmures
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...believed that their Commencement (at the University that gave us napalm, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, William P. Bundy, John T. McNaughton, Leonard S. Unger, Henry A. Kissinger and a whole cast of infamous academies eager to discuss a brutal war in sterile, amoral phrases would pass quietly, without a murmur of antiwar protest...
Djilas depicts everyday life on both sides: slender Turkish girls enveloped in soft shadows and sly glances, the insistent murmur of garden streams in the background: hearty Serbs bathed in the rich sunlight that pours copiously on gleaming mountains. But the book's cumulative power lies in appalling battle details. Heads sail briskly from necks and are hoisted on pikes. A Montenegrin grabs a Turk's horse and tries frantically to kick a severed leg out of the stirrup. During a lunch break between bashing feet and smashing kidneys, an unforgettable father-son torture team laments the passing...
...seems, at first glance, to be a conventional cocktail lounge. There are soft lights, a polished mahogany bar and the murmur of drinkers' voices rising above unobtrusive music. But there is more to the scene than meets the eye. The drinks are free, a TV camera is videotaping the activities and electronic equipment under the bar is administering shocks to the patrons, most of whom are alcoholic patients at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino, Calif., where the lounge has been installed...
...Hollywood High, the outsized and unsightly girl known as "Barge" would sneak off to the girls' room and stare at herself in the mirror. She pressed her nose against the glass so she could look into her eyes without seeing the rest of her face. And she would murmur over and over again: "Some day you'll be beautiful. Some day you'll be beautiful...
...that strains to catch the Workers' every murmur, it is gratifying to hear them sing out boldly in the operas of Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964). His life-long concern over social conditions in the United States finds vigorous and artistic, yet undogmatic, expression in his music...