Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with it last week, however, was not quite enough to endanger his underdog status. The Vice President remained an astonishingly inconsistent campaigner. At times on the stump he could be inspiring and almost pithy-a quality at odds with his loquacious nature. Then, in the next paragraph, he could sound again like a political calliope, cliches ablast. "Government of the people, for the people and by the people," he told one audience, "is as American as apple...
Essentially, Nixon is trying to steer between the crass appeals to animosity of Wallace and the orthodox liberal approach of Humphrey. Eschewing concrete proposals, Wallace aims at his listeners' gut feeling that crime must be quashed by any means available. Nixon attempts to sound both alarmed and controlled at the same time, but the element of alarm seems to be winning out. He cites the FBI figures without qualification: "If the present rate of new crime continues, the number of rapes and robberies and assaults and thefts in the U.S. today will double...
...Supreme Court Justice, soothe angry ghetto Negroes despite his scant knowledge of psychology, enforce hundreds of petty laws without discrimination, and use only necessary force to bring violators before the courts. The job demands extraordinary skill, restraint and character-qualities not usually understood by either cop-hating leftists, who sound as if they want to exterminate all policemen, or by dissent-hating conservatives, who seem to want policemen to run the U.S. in a paroxysm of punitive "law and order...
Even the soldiers made no unnecessary noise. They would go through clapping motions without letting their hands make a sound...
BRIAN EPSTEIN may have put the Beatles in suits, but their sound and their hair was still their own, and so was their stage presence, their "larking about." And it communicated something many of us hadn't tasted before, something wild, exuberant, playful, young, funny, and joyous...