Word: shrilled
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...persisted in his optimism, though it has been severely tried. Just as he was beginning to establish himself in postwar Hollywood as a young director of substantial gifts, he was offered the script of a shrill melodrama entitled I Married a Communist. He refused to film it. Later he discovered that to his bosses at the old RKO studio, anyone who declined the project was politically suspect. Losey's political history-sponsoring Composer Hanns Eisler, supporting Playwright Bertolt Brecht, signing a friend-of-the-court brief for Producer Adrian Scott, one of the original Hollywood Ten-got him into...
...made the poet into a folk figure again, and it was Ginsberg, too, who led the trek into Indian sutra land. Such preoccupations have taken more of his time lately than his writing, leaving Gregory Corso as his archdisci-ple. At 41, Corso has a tone a trifle less shrill, decorated with more literary allusions, perhaps more varied rhythmically than Ginsberg's. It is still a prosody deriving directly from Walt Whitman, full of "I saw," "I swear," "I weep," "I curse," "I look" and studded with sudden "O's" and exclamation marks...
...essentially the same apprehension of all three experiences. The difference between the Life Magazine extra on Woodstock and Rolling Stone's Woodstock issue confines itself to details of taste and description; the broad interpretative outlines are the same, though Rolling Stone's hosannas are perhaps a bit more shrill and explicitly self-promoting. This confluence of such ostensibly antagonistic perspectives extends to the Altamont concert; from Newsweek to the Berkeley Tribe , Altamont, in the Tribe's words, "... like the massacre at Song My, exploded the myth of innocence...
...this isolation from the antiwar demonstrations which made SDS's shrill condemnation of the Moratoria particularly inappropriate and offensive. If SDS had worked toward an anti-war strategy and lobbied within the Moratoria for radical speakers and viewpoints, then the criticisms would have been more understandable. Instead, SDS held its own antiwar demonstrations in advance of the October Moratorium, with trade unionism as the principal motif ("an American victory in Vietnam will be a terrific defeat for the U. S. worker...
...Kennedy, the Department of State was a "bowl of jelly." To the American public and to Congress, State has often been an object of scorn, the refuge of striped-pants snobs devoted to balancing teacups. Last week the department looked at itself and concurred with many of the less shrill opinions of its longtime critics. It was a self-examination as candid as has ever emerged from the federal bureaucracy...