Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need only a simple majority for confirmation. Not only do the Democrats have close to a 2-to-l majority in the Senate, but several Republicans, including Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, have also promised to vote for confirmation. Fortas, said Dirksen, is "a very able lawyer" with "sound" philosophy. He called Thornberry, a Congressman for more than 14 years, a "very solid citizen...
...morning in town was followed by an afternoon at the rambling summer house atop Minute Man Hill, which has an enormous veranda with a view of Long Island Sound when the sun breaks through the mists. Fortas kept busy scrubbing the winter's grit off the windows. Now and then, he would wheel a load of manure to his wife, Carolyn, who was working on the garden, soggy from the unseasonably heavy spring rains...
...Over the slow years of his pastorate, he walked much, looked long, thought constantly about the town's past and realized that behind the Victorian storefronts of the day there still survived the stubborn structure of the old town, along with a hard core of dilapidated but still sound colonial houses...
...French traditionalists by taking gross liberties with the classics to give them contemporary credence. A U.S. audience is more likely to feel the faint shock of cultural lag. Freshly attuned to the theater of tribal intimacy, with its skin-to-skin actor-audience confrontations and its stereophonic barrage of sound, a playgoer may be startled to see a stylized drama in which each line is pruned, each gesture sculptured, each scene framed...
...upper-class minx of a wife. The only novelty provided in its performance is an acting style that is resolutely anti-psychological. Each role is lustrously burnished; none is probed. No transistorized translation is offered with these plays, and to those who lack French, the language may sound like an LP record played at 78 r.p.m...