Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BostonTranscript, voice of the Beacon Hill Brahmins, was badly hurt in the depression, yet its publisher dragged on until 1941. Finally, but only after months of pathetic appeals for financial aid (some of which actually appeared in the Transcript), the paper went under. In 1956, the Boston post, the strident and powerful voice of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts and once the nation's third largest paper, died. ThePost's publisher, John Fox, so firmly believed in the Post's importance as the Democratic standard bearer that he twice managed to revive the paper, in one case after it hadn...
...McNamara when he visited Harvard in November. The impulse behind those students who mobbed the Secretary and physically halted his car was one of frustration and pique--frustration at the apparent reluctance of the Administration's high officials at that time to confront the more articulate spokesmen of the strident anti- war movement, and pique at the decision of McNamara's host, the Institute of Politics, to shield him from large numbers of students...
...rate, the project--whether it succeeds or fails--is a clear indication that many Harvard students have resolved to take their increasingly strident objections to the war beyond the University community. They reason that the direction of American policy has become increasingly militaristic, and that its proponents have thus far failed to put forth a carefully reasoned defense. They conclude that many Americans who support the war only for traditional motives of loyalty may be particularly susceptible to persuasion by the doves...
...rate, the project--whether it succeeds or fails--is a clear indication that many Harvard students have resolved to take their increasingly strident objections to the war beyond the University community. They reason that the direction of American policy has become increasingly militaristic, and that its proponents have thus far failed to put forth a carefully reasoned defense. They conclude that many Americans who support the war only for traditional motives of loyalty may be particularly susceptible to persuasion by the doves...
...great extent, then, Vietnam Summer will be a testing ground for Harvard students who have been squeamish about getting together with strident New Leftists. The chances for widespread anti-Administration alienation are immeasurably increased for the simple reason that moderates this summer will have to face the shocking probability that the traditional political method of legal persuasion -- with respect to Vietnam -- has become outmoded...