Word: shrill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep the peace, the U.N. has become to many a cruel delusion. This has rarely been more evident than it was last week as the U.N. debated the India-Pakistan war. While thousands were being killed, the U.N. floundered through 26 hours of procedural arguments, five stillborn resolutions and shrill big power confrontations, including two Soviet vetoes. As the interpreters buzzed the long-winded, angry or pompous phrases, spectators could visualize so many bullets, so many wounds per word: simultaneous translation accompanied by simultaneous death...
...later, and the Jackson organization argues that a win is possible there. Aided by many of Governor Reubin Askew's key field workers, Jackson is strong and deeply grounded. He also has natural allies in the state's aerospace industry and a Jewish community grateful for his shrill arguments for more military aid to Israel. After Florida, the script becomes less precise. Most professionals give him very little chance of taking the nomination, and he is aware of that judgment. "It's hard to know how the building blocks are going to stack," he says...
...that would be shortsighted. As China becomes more active in international affairs and deals with real problems, it can no longer settle for simply striking a pose and feeding a shrill ideological statement to Peking radio. It will have to make decisions and take actions, and more often than not that will mean compromise. In the long spell, practical politics in the pursuit of attainable goals could be the death of dogmatism in China. But, as University of Michigan Sinologist Alexander Eckstein notes, "We are still far from out of the woods with China." In other words, the men from...
...only previous appearance of a Communist Chinese delegation in the U.N. occurred in 1950, when Peking sent a nine-man team led by General Wu Hsiu-chuan to New York to "discuss" the Korean crisis. One U.N. veteran who heard the general's shrill tirades remembers Wu as "the loudest man we've ever had here." Peking's leaders have never exactly venerated the institution. Leery of its peace-keeping attempts, Chou has derisively called the U.N. "an international gendarmerie." In a recent interview in a Japanese newspaper, the Mao regime's leading intellectual, Kuo Mojo, called...
...individual voters and wound up with an unexceptionable yet totally predictable and unprovocative piece of journalism. MASQUERADE, an anthology of improvisations from children's fables, was the major embarrassment of the PBS premières. The gentle whimsy and fantasy of the original tales withers in a broad, shrill production better suited to the Minsky circuit. Kids of all ages would call it a vulgar rip-off from the Story Theater (TIME, March 1), which has been far more sensitively translated to TV by Creator Paul Sills in a syndicated commercial series. CRITIC-AT-LARGE is a quarter-hour...