Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only pray that the two Men of the Year find a way to overcome the obstacles blocking a dialogue. Silence, in a world such as ours, is a terrifying sound...
...some conciliatory words could go far to soothe their jitters. Whether his softer line will anger the President's conservative supporters is another matter. The White House apparently feels that the Reagan record over the past three years will satisfy the right wing, however moderate the President may sound...
...some objections about what they feel is a loose and even inaccurate translation by Patricia Goodheart, but Cardinal says. "I think it is a very good translation, I helped with a few words here and there. But Pat understood the most important aspects of the book--the rhythm, the sound it makes. After all, American is American, French is French. Sometimes you can't translate word for word. I don't feel I have been betrayed if the translation of song words is not exact...
...great last words traditionally included in anthologies have usually been more serious than that, and often sound suspiciously perfect. Le style, c'est I'homme. General Robert E. Lee is said to have gone in 1870 with just the right military-metaphysical command: "Strike the tent!" The great 18th century classicist and prig Nicolas Boileau managed a sentence of wonderfully plump self-congratulation: "It is a consolation to a poet on the point of death that he has never written a line injurious to good morals...
...hears the little sound of a pious fraud...