Word: shrilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be better if Breggin, the loudest voice making those points, were less shrill and more reasonable. But then, the calmer voices never seem to make it onto Oprah...
...them, Nikolai Salatov, recalls a student-court session in which two younger pupils were put on trial for stealing car parts from an automobile repair shop. Zhirinovsky acted as prosecutor, and even though such pilfering was common, he turned the proceedings into a show trial, delivering a shrill speech about the need to punish the boys. Enraged, his peers waited until after class and beat...
...hall mark of this mysterious generation, OK touts itself in small letters as "a carbonated 'beverage,'" with the last word in quotes--the hipsters who make "OK," one assumes, are too cool to use that technical word with a straight face. The slogan completes the pitch--no hi-strung shrill jingos here--"Everything is going...
...about the debate itself, an examination of the moral, philosophical and legal issues surrounding homosexuality. The event, which took place in the Moral Reasoning class "Justice," between Professor Harvey Mansfield and Sullivan of The New Republic was unquestionably Harvard at its best. In an age of political correctness and shrill campus protests, it's heartening to see a quality debate on such an emotional issue...
Kathleen Hanna's singing is as usual the most distinctive part of the record. Shrill, childlike, anguished, angry, bracing and sometimes bracingly variable, Hanna's isn't the "voice of a generation"--it's the voice of an individual woman/girl/grrrl, singing, mostly, this time, about the women/girls/grrrls around her: the traitors, the cool ones, the ones she hates and the ones she loves. The punk rock, while always simple and loud, varies enough with the lyrical mood to make songs of love ("For Tammy Rae") and of resentment ("Alien She," which taunts "She wants me to be like...