Word: shrills
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Some university employees still going about their campus business have been insulted by a shrill L.A.O.O.C. command not to speak to any athlete "even if he or she initiates the conversation...
...acceptance speech Mondale avoided the high-pitched delivery that sometimes sounds shrill on television, speaking more slowly and in more natural if nasal tones. Mondale contended that "the drowsy harmony of the Republican Party" contrasts with the open debates of the Democratic Party, and he claimed that there was another difference: "They are a portrait of privilege, and we are a mirror of America." Addressing anyone who voted for Reagan in 1980, he said, "I heard you. And our party heard you." He had learned since then, he conceded, "that America must have a strong defense, and a sober view...
...WITH A SHRILL blast on the whistle between his teeth the bicyclist announces his apporoach. He whizzes between a Chevy parked at the curb and a bread truck pulled up at the red light and heads into the intersection. There is an oncoming car in the cross street but it is still half a block away, and with a couple of quick pumps on the pedals, the bicyclist is clear...
...also very gifted. For Carnelle Scott, the orphan and reformed town tart whom she plays, is a daffy simpleton. Seeking redemption and identity by becoming Miss Firecracker at her Mississippi home town's annual Fourth of July celebration, she could easily become shrill in her eccentric quest, pathetic in her eventual failure. Hunter finds a sweet yet fierce core of integrity in this character that is not only very appealing but the source of the grip Beth Henley's play finally exerts on an audience...
...real problem with Mr. Howe's approach, however, is that he is very willing to "brand the divestiture movement as one that doesn't deserve consideration" because of its "shrill posturing." Although Mr. Howe charges that most of the divestment proponents' arguments are ad hominem, his own arguments aren't exactly free of that bias either. If Mr. Howe were really concerned about the issue, he would find out more about the arguments for and against divestment (both of which have been made quite public). Instead, he attacks the people who are in favor of divestment, letting all the relevant...