Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nocturnal rendezvous. There has been much grumbling from those who have found themselves confronted in the dark of night with the likes of Barbara Hepworth's looming Sea Form, which looks like a shield with holes in it, or Pablo Gargallo's St. John the Baptist, a strident bronze whose every jutting piece stands ready to gore the unwary lover...
...most strident voices in Method ism's internal debate have lately been those of the ecumenists. During a June conference of church leaders at Lake Junaluska, N.C., Theologian Albert C. Outler, an observer at the Vatican Council, argued that it was time for Methodism to "fish or cut bait." If the church was really not interested in following through with the Blake proposal, he asked, "would it be wiser to withdraw now rather than later?" In the current issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Methodist Church Historian Franklin Littell complains that his church's leaders have approached...
...programs. Last week, after a tedious two-year study, the FCC agreed with the complaints. They "obviously cannot be dismissed on the ground that 'commercials aren't really loud, they just sound loud,'" declared the commission. The presentation of commercials "in a loud, rapid and strident manner" is "contrary to the public interest." In its soft-spoken way, the FCC made no specific regulations, simply directed that "appropriate measures" be taken to end the practice...
...oppressed peoples and workers of the world from the yoke of slavery." In Paris just after World War I, Ho hung out in the caves, palled around with a Chinese student named Chou Enlai, wrote pamphlets for the Communist International denouncing the "ugly mug of capitalism," edited a strident, anticolonial weekly called Le Paria (The Untouchable), wrote a bitter, anti-French comedy called Le Dragon de Bambou. In 1918 he rented a suit and trotted out to Versailles to badger Woodrow Wilson for the "liberation" of "Viet Nam"-the ancient name for the region that all Frenchmen divided into partes...
Even more disturbing than the School Committee's unwillingness to end racial imbalance has been its strident, irrational response to criticism. Led by Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, the majority of the Committee has articulated and given sanction to the originally casual prejudices of many white Bostonians. As a result, popular opinion has been inflamed against Negro rights demands, and Mrs. Hicks and her like-minded colleagues were reelected with wide margins in November...