Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horrifying Thing. For the first time since the war began, a sizable number of Arab leaders met last week in a series of whirling minisummits to discuss "nullifying the effects of Zionist aggression." First, Algerian President Houari Boumediene flew into Cairo and excited Cairo crowds with a shrill cry for an immediate resumption of the war with Israel. He was shortly joined in Cairo by Jordan's King Hussein, who privately pleaded for some sort of accommodation with Israel-but got nowhere with his fellow Arabs. After he flew home to Amman, the leaders of the Arab left...
...amount of warning, however shrill, ever quite prepares a people for the air-raid siren's scream. The first wail is always difficult to believe. In Cairo, last week, it scarcely disturbed the morning bustle of the bazaar, or the gossip of black-clad women clucking along the banks of the muddy Nile. No matter that only the night before, President Gamal Abdel Nasser had welcomed Iraq to the Egypto-Jordanian alliance against Israel, and proclaimed: "We are so eager for battle in order to force the enemy to awake from his dreams and meet Arab reality face to face...
...Moss played the queer brother with restraint, wisely letting the text, not phony mannerisms, establish that the characer was a homosexual. An outlandish swish would have been out of balance with the other performances, all on the quiet side, but Moss might have been a bit more peevish and shrill in his woman-hating moments. Kenneth McBain gave a controlled and droll performance as Mr. Sloane, not perhaps as sinister as he should be, but always the master of his accent and his deadpan. The four actors were acting well together on Friday night and were probably a perfect ensemble...
These critics have chosen the middle road. Their efforts represent an attempt to establish a respectable posture of opposition, an alternative to the shrill dissent of the left wing, a course of moderation which may yet attract many of their elders and dissuade the President from upping the ante. It is a desperate effort. But it might work. It could still bolster the doves within the Administration. It just might convince the President that Americans will stand behind him in efforts to negotiate or at least limit the conflict. The President--caught in a tightening vise between those who want...
...shadow of the walls of Peking's Forbidden City, where the history of modern China is being written these days in foot-high ideographs of pure vitriol, that shrill challenge was published last week over the name of Mao Tse-tung, the Red Emperor of China. The world indeed wiped its eyes in astonishment as Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, aimed at "purifying" Chinese Communism, erupted into strife and stridency so bitter that it produced widespread chaos and verged on civil war. The revolution that for 18 years has enchained China's 750 million people...