Word: shrill
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...between the right and the left." Radio Canton complained that "the class enemy" was sabotaging efforts to control floods caused by the rising Pearl. Mao himself, however, seems to be egging on the feuds, after giving orders only last March for "unified rule." His latest thoughts from Peking carry shrill epithets about the danger of "rightist deviation" and the necessity of "leftist factionalism." In fact, despite the violence, soldiers in Canton have received orders from Peking not to interfere with the fighting unless directly fired upon...
...laughable-almost as laughable as the '60s movies will be to late-show fans of the '70s and '80s. Then as now, viewers equipped with 20/20 hindsight will perceive the depressed, desolated land that bled through the '30s films, the hunger for absolutes and the shrill patriotism that surrounded the war and cold war of the '40s. They will recognize the erosion of supposedly permanent mores and attitudes that characterized the late '50s and early '60s. They will survey the cliches of this period-the alienation bit, the under-30 thing, the unromantic...
...malaise and disgust with the tautologies of higher education, especially in the so-called humanities and social sciences. It is feared that in these areas the university has become a subsidized barrier separating the idealism of youth from the affluence of middle-class, middle-aged, virtue. Without striking too shrill a note, it might be accurate to say that there is an awareness and dissatisfaction with the methods of indoctrination which the speculative and historical sciences have imposed on college students. The university is no longer the ivory citadel of disinterest for which it has so long been rebuked. Would...
...freely on backwoods trails as a hunting vehicle. It is comfortable, fast as a rabbit and already immensely popular (one estimate places the number in use at 10,000). But where do they come from? Only when the car starts is its genealogy revealed: beneath the skin beats the shrill, short-stroke engine of the lowly Volkswagen...
...squirrelly member of a pandemoniously eccentric household. The grotesque English public school system did little for him except inspire the literary decapitation, in Eminent Victorians, of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the spartan Christian of Rugby. By the time Lytton reached Cambridge in 1899, he was a distinct oddity-a gangly, shrill-voiced, germ-ridden, manic-depressive esthete, caustic as lye except when caught in the eternally adolescent marshmallow bogs of homosexual passion. "Duncan Grant is the full moon of heaven," he wrote to Maynard Keynes, who was one of his earliest friends and confidants. In fact, Keynes was something more. Holroyd...