Word: outshouting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which thousands of lives depend and to which there are no simple answers. They are also problems that are in danger of being obscured as Richard Nixon's counterattack on the tactics and legitimacy of dissent overshadows the core questions. Opponents of his policies have managed to outshout-but not outnumber-those willing to give Nixon more time. Convinced that strong public support in the U.S. is essential if Hanoi's intransigence is to be shaken, the Administration seems to be concentrating on discrediting responsible critics and uncertain skeptics as well as irresponsible opponents...
...news and public-affairs reporting." In fact, he came on more as the Hugh Downs of TV officialdom than a fighting critic. "Unthinking criticism, in my opinion, is a cop-out," said Burch. "We must not contribute to an atmosphere in which each party to an issue tries to outshout the other so that neither is heard." He frankly admitted that he did not have "all the answers to the problems of the communications industry" and suggested that no one else...
...visit "another cynical act on the part of the Soviet Union to hamper relationships between Soviet and American Jews." Levin's first press conference was turned into a shambles by two rival spokesmen of the crowd that had come to greet him, each of whom tried to outshout the other for the privilege of delivering the welcoming speech. To restore order, Levin finally turned his back on both of them, faced the wall and started chanting the minhah, the Jewish evensong...
...Walküre was hardly a love feast for the traditionalist who prefers bombast in Wagner. The five-hour morality saga of human love in conflict with divine power-and of divinity in conflict with itself-has hardly ever sounded so subdued and lyrical. Without the need to outshout torrents of sound from the pit, the singers often performed at little above normal conversational tones...
...Vickers (Siegmund) and Newcomer Gundula Janowitz (Sieglinde), listeners heard the creamy lyricism of Wagner's love music as only unforced vocalism can produce it. American Baritone Thomas Stewart's Wotan had the slight reediness of a singer not fully matured but promising. Nilsson, the Brunnhilde, who can outshout half a dozen Wagnerian orchestras at once, concentrated instead on the compellingly human qualities of the role...