Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every session of Parliament in the past decade has hotly debated the controversial recommendations of a government commission that came out in favor of relaxing the laws against homosexuality. When the suggestions were first introduced as legislation, the outcry was so shrill that the bill was overwhelmingly defeated, amid cries that the whole idea was "scandalous," "filthy" and "bestial." But in ten years, the mood in Parliament - and in the country - has changed. Last week the House of Commons passed the bill over token opposition, and it will soon go on the statute books...
...from clear what that something was. While critics of U.S. bombing, from U Thant to the Vatican to Bertrand Russell, hastened to accuse the U.S. of escalating the war, Washington mumbled and fumbled until it was too late to erase the initial impact of the shrill reports...
...bend over and submit to the routine check when he showed up in Kinshasa fresh from the mining country. The law's probing finger produced six capsules of white diamonds. Kassanda's cops some how felt they had missed a carat or two. Over Wina's shrill protests, they applied a purgative, and voila, as if by magic, there suddenly appeared 60 more plastic capsules containing no less than 1,500 carats of diamonds...
Inconspicuous as it was, Otto's return brought a shrill outcry from the Austrian Socialist Party, which sponsored a three-hour strike by some 250,000 Austrian production and office workers, and then blamed "the unrest caused by Otto Habsburg's provocative entry." The Socialists have long talked darkly of the "threat" of a Habsburg restoration, though even the Habsburgs themselves are not expecting a royal comeback. Otto was exiled at the age of six. In the early years, his proud and persistent mother, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, tried every scheme to regain Habsburg honors...
Much can be forgiven a new magazine, and there is very little in the Boston Review that needs forgiving. Exposure to the rather shrill editorial introduction and the back cover ("The Boston Review is on the MOVE... Hasta la vista, sista) suggests that magazines should either say a great deal about themselves or very little; BR hasn't yet chosen between tendenz and taciturnity. When the magazine recovers from a slight touch of editorialisis, and develops a group of contributors that is distinctly its own, it will, in fact, be on the move. Hasta la vista, Charley. And Ferg...