Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days. Stevenson and Dean Rusk conferred with President Kennedy as the vote on the Angola resolution approached. To the sponsors of the Angola resolution (Liberia, Ceylon and the U.A.R.). Stevenson insisted that the U.S. would not support a strident, hysterical measure. As a result, the drafters took a sober second look at their own resolution and agreed to tone it down. During the debate, Adlai Stevenson cited the Declaration of Independence and chided NATO Partner Portugal for ignoring the obvious signals that could push Angola into the same hideous chaos Belgium had bestowed upon its Congo colony. When...
...evidence of Birmingham's shallow writing that he can present the foregoing statement about Ivy girls uncritically. The masculinization of the Ivy girl is a result of a tough competitive atmosphere, a perhaps undesirable after-effect of subjecting women to a man's education. The strident, supercilious tone of various girls' remarks about Ivy boys amuses Birmingham, when perhaps a more adequate response would be horror. Many educators now feel that the Ivy girl's schooling is just building her up for the great letdown to come, when she is forced to play the woman's part. And many parents...
Roadblock. But the chief Russian successes were negative. They sometimes found the new bloc as balky-and as divided-as the West did. On several occasions, the Soviets found their more strident proposals blocked by Afro-Asian opposition, and were forced to drop or moderate them...
Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos is clearly a man who prefers the comforting sound of temple bells to the strident sounds of war. And although he was hoisted to the premiership by young (26) and moody Paratroop Captain Kong Le after a successful coup d'état in August, Souvanna basically abhorred soldiers in government ("There is always a coup in the offing"). He loved peace. To re-establish it after seven years of trouble with the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, Souvanna hopefully sought to end the nagging civil war by forming a government of "national union" that...
...From the time he finished his Paris studies with Nadia Boulanger in the mid-1920s, Brooklyn born Aaron Copland was known as a restive talent. Looking for "a usable past," he experimented first with jazz in the wiry, jaunty Music for the Theater (1925), later wove it into the strident and monumental style of the Ode, which to his mind marks "the end of the first period of my work." A later period was inspired by Cop land's feeling that the American composer was losing touch with his public. In the late 1930s he began to write...