Word: strident
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Journal line is a hit with many businessmen. As Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro told TIME'S Elizabeth Rudulph: "They ring the bell with their readers. People are seeing in print what they believe themselves." But even Shapiro admits that Journal editorials tend to be "somewhat strident." That stridency is at least partly redeemed by the Journal's op-ed page, a mélange of opinion (not always conservative), letters to the editor and coverage of the arts. The page now appears twice weekly but will become a daily feature in January...
...Oberammergau reformers are not satisfied. The production, says Hans Schwaighofer, head of Oberammergau's venerable woodcarving school, "does not alter the play's strident tone or its message: the collective Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus." Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, who has lobbied the villagers for years, is horrified: "The play is a nightmare of antiSemitism. Jews are still portrayed as bloodthirsty and cruel characters...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Anita Bryant, 40, singer and purveyor of orange juice, whose secular concert career has suffered in recent years because of her strident campaigns against gay rights; and Bob Green, former disc jockey and until now her manager; after 20 years of marriage, four children; in Miami Beach. Bryant claimed that Green had "violated my very conscience," by cooperating with "certain hired staff members" who she said were trading on her reputation for their personal gain...
During his rambling, four-hour speech Sadat talked at length about strife between Egypt's 2.5 million Coptic Christian minority and Muslim fundamentalists, which has grown more strident with the rise of Islamic militancy. He announced a ban on ecclesiastical groups that "seek to spread political dissension," an obvious reference to Islamic demonstrations against both the peace treaty with Israel and the presence in Egypt of the former Shah of Iran. He assured the Copts that they had nothing to fear. Said Sadat: "Our Islam is not [the Ayatullah] Khomeini's Islam. Khomeini's revolution...
F.D.R., on the other hand, smoothly adjusted to each change in the cycle. In 1932, in the depths of the Depression, he began as a conciliator. Four years later, after the electorate had divided over the New Deal, he turned more strident. In 1940 he appeared as a patriotic moralizer, preparing for war while keeping the nation out of it. Finally, in 1944, he began another cycle as the great wartime unifier...