Word: rant
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...done. But some of you cling to these jobs with tenacity, almost desperation, terrified at being sent home. And some of you have deliberately chosen Europe as a healing exile from the fevers of America. You are not fleeing stagnation but strife, not bourgeois conformity but the rant of radicalism or reaction. What you are seeking in Europe is security, peace, order...
Americans will undoubtedly continue to summon the Guard and rant at Government; the impulses to do so are endemic and some situations permit no alternative. What MacLeish pointed out is the need for a deeper readjustment of society-a rediscovery of and renewal of affection for such old-fashioned virtues as tolerance and forbearance. Just as the U.S. and Russia have developed a coexistence, however tentative, those edging toward the poles of American society must learn to live with each other in the knowledge that if they do not, either can destroy everything for both...
...milestone quality of 1970. Worn down by 16 years of legal and political maneuvering, many white Southerners are now prepared to compromise and try integrated education. Basic attitudes toward blacks may have changed little, but pragmatic considerations are overshadowing them. Thus the few Southern leaders who continue to rant racism get less of a hearing than before. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, for example, denounced the "Gestapo" from Washington and urged parents to ignore their children's transfers to desegregated schools. He got some followers in Stockbridge, but authorities there insisted that the children attend their assigned schools. Attempted white...
Ivers' music is also scarred by imprecise execution. This notwithstanding, the conception that emerges from behind the cloud of missed notes and dissonances arising from faulty synchronization of pit and state is dramatically and musically satisfying. Job, sung by Channing backed by a chorus, swells to a powerful rant which is the emblem of Job's tormentors. "Chicken in the Free way," a song from White Sale--aside from being savagely self-parodistic--carries the brutality one step further; just as the scene on the spinning table defines Job's position, this brutal glee club number describes the state...
...enough to excite the coolest gérant. Right off Mack Jones, the slugging voltigeur, hit a circuit. A few but sur balles later, he collected his fourth and fifth points produits with his second straight coup sur. But then John Bateman let a faux ballon pop out of his mitaine de receveur and the trouble began. An erreur here, a simple there and Dan McGinn, the ace lanceur de relève, was rushed to the rescue. But by then it was a whole new joute...