Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a recent appearance at his summer White House in Valparaiso, Allende heard a peasant in the cheering crowd shout: "Compaňero Presidente, this arm of mine will work 20 times harder than before the people came to power!" Allende's first measurable test of popularity will come in a nationwide round of municipal elections in early April, when he hopes that his "Popular Unity" front will win control of Chile's major cities. To keep things as calm as possible, the President has announced that a planned visit by Fidel Castro has been postponed until after...
...open." A mother kicked in the shin by her four-year-old, for example, should not react with a hypocritical mixture of hidden venom and saccharin: "We don't kick people, do we? Say you are sorry, darling." Instead, she should vent her feelings honestly and shout at the child "or even swat...
...diplomat complained that even Soviet schoolchildren were being disparaged by hecklers from a synagogue across the street. "Our Soviet people don't believe in God," he said, "but we respect religious buildings. Yet these people who say they believe in God climb on top of the synagogue and shout four-letter words at our children. The leaders of the synagogue say they don't approve, but they don't do anything. I simply do not believe that the United States authorities are unable to protect us. I saw on television how they acted at the Chicago convention...
Harris' speech handicap makes it impossible for Ken Hughes to offer any vision of Cromwell the private man, since domestic scenes have to be played at less than a shout, and a hoarse whisper is the only alternative to a shout that Harris can come up with. I stress this failing not to slur Harris (indeed, Cromwell by the end of his career was probably hoarse too!): rather, I bring it up as a factor crucial in explaining why the ideological bias of the movie-strongly pro-Cromwell-fails to work convincingly in actual dramatic interchange...
...been committed and then frozen into print. For all its renegade appeal, the daring new journalism often resulted in being only complacent and self-serving. As if the reader's recognition of the writer's skill and cleverness in catching his victims unawares was justification enough for us to shout jaccuse...