Word: shrill
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President Bok's statements make it crystal clear that when anyone is protected too much from the realities of life their skin thin their voice becomes shrill, and their roots wither, President Bok should retire as Harvard President and go to work for a year as a dishwasher or a cab driver, or some other occupation where you come into contact with the rest of humanity. Malcolm W. Berkowitz...
After the stock controversy blew up, embarrassed Chrysler officials quickly tried to down-play the whole episode. Said one: "It's a messy issue. We are not being shrill or overreaching. But there you are with the spotlight on, your hand's in the cookie jar and everybody's pointing fingers." Late in the week the company announced that it was no longer requesting that the Government drop its right to buy the stock...
...Pope John Paul II next month, was ready for trouble. Hundreds of helmeted riot policemen, each carrying a 24-inch white rubber baton filled with lead balls, had sealed off the area. They were supported by dozens of militia trucks, water cannons and armored personnel carriers. "Disperse!" boomed a shrill voice over a bullhorn. Shortly thereafter, the police attacked the crowd. Militiamen struck indiscriminately, beating an old woman with their sticks and kicking a plump man in work pants who had been knocked down in the melee. Some demonstrators tried to escape into the church. Others were forced into Market...
...Weathermen break into a run across the park on signal. They are wearing white helmets, which are all you can see bobbing up and down in the night. They are screaming and chanting, and suddenly start the high-pitched shrill used by the people of Algiers during the revolution. Ill-leel-leel-lil-ill-il-eel-eeeeeeeeeeee...
...young reactionaries did, in fact, recede in direct proportion to Ronald Reagan's sinking fortunes. Harvard's vaunted Conservative Club, for example, disappeared altogether from public view after a semester of shrill heckling. But in my eagerness to dispel myth, I had obscured the key aspect of the Harvard undergraduate psyche. Despite the popularity of easy progressive positions--restrain the Reagan arms binge, help poor people, integrate the Law School faculty--most students here are dedicated conformists prone to inward-looking contentment...