Word: strident
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshness on the national political scene. He has done unusually well for a challenger to an incumbent President. Reagan has benefited from a trend by more moderate Republicans to consider themselves independents, leaving the party more conservative than it was in 1972. Yet his pitch may well be too strident for what is widely seen as a year of moderation. He also gains his strong support from the discontented and the fearful, whose numbers are declining. The movie-star background and polished delivery have a stagy quality ill fitting the current accent on candor...
...layers of insistent drumming, strings and background voices. The arrangements lie somewhere between the lushness of Marvin Gaye and the overkill-extravaganza of Barry White, but they are totally unsuited to Moore. She screams and whines a lot (probably to make herself heard), and the end result is unnecessarily strident, not soulful. She should return to the concept of "Peach Melba," released a few months ago--a simple and uncluttered album with some really beautiful moments...
...address themselves to the substance of a genuine agreement." He also endorsed "the objectives of detente" but faulted Kissinger "for giving up too much and asking for too little" in negotiations on limiting nuclear arms. On the other hand, Carter rapped Jackson's hard line by rejecting "the strident and bellicose voices of those who would have this country return to the day of the cold war with the Soviet Union...
...Western Europe, there is resentment over strident U.S. opposition to the growing successes of Communist parties in the West (see ESSAY page...
...response to a strident attack on Carter in Manhattan's Village Voice, Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, a black, wrote an angry reply: "Carter is one of the finest products of the most misunderstood region of our nation. You are probably right in questioning Jimmy's doctrinaire liberalism, but progressive politics in 1976 must be based on a tough mind and a tender heart and a loving sensitive spirit...