Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapidly changing urban complex, Atlanta seems at once foreign to, but trapped within the rural Old South. Not as much a pearl of the Renaissance languishing in a medieval sea as some of its boosters like to imagine, Atlanta is more a cacophony of modernity occasionally pierced by the strident monotone of its feudal past. McGill calls his city "a fly caught in amber...
Despite a warming spring sun and blue skies, Warsaw last week was a gloomy and uneasy city. The press had a strident, scolding tone. Normally talkative Poles suddenly felt it more prudent to avoid the few Westerners who have lately managed to get entry visas, and the government became stricter about letting Poles leave the country. Everywhere there seemed to be larger numbers than usual of plainclothes policemen and other shadowy characters. The country's severest purge since the bloodless revolution of 1956, which had started off a few weeks earlier by concentrating on the Jews in government...
What makes Marcuse a guru of the student rebels is his chilling and strident critique of modern industrial civilization, which he sees as an impersonal, all-pervasive agent of domination over the individual. Modern technology, which should be used to free man from oppressive work, Marcuse argues, has overreached itself, turned wasteful and created a massive fusion of interlocking military, corporate and political interests. As a result, he says, the normal channels of protest and dissent are rendered impotent...
Freshman dorms and all Houses except Adams and Quincy will be spared the strident blasts of the monthly fire alarm test...
...believes something is truly wrong. The Dean is paid to formulate, deliberate, and administer educational policy; the Faculty is usually indifferent and instead concentrates on its own research and instruction. The Dean is thus always better prepared for debate than his opponents, but it also means that the strident objections of a minority of active Faculty powers can have an exaggerated amount of power. For example, in last fall's two regular Faculty meetings, only 185 of the 700-man Faculty attended one meeting, while 175 attended the other. Therefore the Dean loses much of his support through Faculty indifference...