Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost exactly five years ago, South Korean students swept into the streets of Seoul for a week of rioting that finally brought the downfall of Syngman Rhee. Last week students were on the rampage again with the same strident tone of reckless abandon. First, 2,000 chanting collegians traded stones for tear gas with mesh-masked police. Three days later, a mob of 6,000 swarmed through the capital's main streets. On and on it went, until the daily demonstrations mushroomed to 10,000 youths in Seoul, with lesser eruptions in other cities as well...
...Amen Corner, by James Baldwin, has one negative virtue as compared with his Blues for Mr. Charlie, offered last season: it is not a strident, vulgar, melodramatic polemic on the race question. Those who love to see the tumbrels of social protest roll portentously across the stage will be sorely disappointed. The play also has one positive virtue: Baldwin's autobiographical acquaintance with the Negro evangelical scene. But Amen Corner, a 14-year-old first play, scuttles edgewise through this milieu like a crab, evading dramatic life more successfully than it confronts its characters. Baldwin has yet to learn...
...this is true, it says something about the character of the Republican national convention delegate. Since San Francisco, commentators have stressed the uniqueness of the 1964 delegates' strident, unswerving commitment to Goldwater. But if Novak is right, if only 386 of the delegates were irrevocably tied to Goldwater, then what may be important about the convention is its similarity to the supposedly liberal conventions of previous years...
...never seen her before in my life." "You're my husband and you know it," she whined. "We've got three children at home and the freezer's empty. How am I supposed to get home? I haven't got any money." Even after they left the room, her strident complaints could be heard from outside the door...
...Jojo and his fellow Negroes, who "must judge all systems from the limbo of our skin," the greatest shock of all is the strident racial prejudice of a nation whose leaders deny that prejudice exists. The Negroes' white girl friends are suddenly shipped away from Moscow-to "Keep Russia Red." On the streets, they are always stared at, occasionally attacked, and often taunted with the Russian equivalent of "nigger" -"black monkey...