Word: resounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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High atop the House of Kirkland, surrounded by all the comforts of a modern-day baronet (water bed, stand up bar, powerful stereo) lives the man who will carry the lance in Saturday's joust against Yale. Even if the foe unseats him, his name will still resound like that of a king: Judson Burke St. John...
...indication. The song worked well as it followed "Scarlet Begonias" after a transition of some smooth and intricate guitar and wah-wah pedal work by Garcia. The unfortunately heavy-handed emphasis on refrains took something away from many songs. The Dead tried too hard to make its tunes resound in the listener...
...because Cesar Chavez's cause seems hopeless or because we've ceased to care about California's farm workers. And when we scan a semi-crowded subway car, we unconciously choose a seat next to a member of our own race. Slogans linger but they no longer resound with passion. Instead, they splash across slick Madison Avenue advertisement. "Eat our yogurt. Rediscover nature...
...industrial as well as the developing world. "Zaïre's folly is not so unique," observes an American businessman in Kinshasa, the capital. Third World countries as a group have piled up a foreign debt that is estimated to be as high as $150 billion; international conferences resound with cries for a moratorium or stretch-out of repayments on a large part of that debt. By mid-1976 U.S. banks alone had some $30 billion in outstanding loans to five nations-Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Indonesia-that are considered potential problem debtors. The Zaïrian debacle...
These tocsins resound in French Journalist Amaury de Riencourt's recent The American Empire, which envisions an Americanization of the world comparable to what Rome achieved when the Mediterranean bordered the known universe. Leaders of government and multinational business are the coming Caesars. U.S. foreign policy, however well intentioned, is an imperial thrust at Europe, Asia and Africa. "Roman citizenship," De Riencourt explains, "was eventually granted to all men dwelling within the borders of the empire. Today, as the unacknowledged American empire strives to find its shape and its limits, the same ecumenical dream is beginning to haunt...