Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jeanne C. Kettleson, assistant dean of the Law School and one of the signers, said yesterday that "the tone rather than the content" of the ad "became the issue" and that its "strident appeal" discouraged several professors from signing...
This fall, Editor Jack Samson canceled the column, ostensibly because the magazine wanted a "modification in the editorial approach." Says he: "I've already hired someone else with an even more strident and stronger stand on conservation. I just don't think Mike Frome did a very good job." CBS officials say that they knew nothing of the change until Frome's supporters started to sound off, and that the parent company bore the writer no grudge...
...Most impressively, Director Louis Malle (Phantom India) does not soften or sentimentalize Lucien, neither judges nor justifies him. Malle's voice is hard and even, his attitude toward his young protagonist understanding, yet cautionary. In Lucien's story, Malle has found a perfect metaphor, direct without being strident, subtle and urgent at the same time. As with Lucien, the foundation for national tragedy is laid quietly, and is built upon with a terrible ease...
TODAY AFTER two weeks of forced busing in Boston, even if the tide of strident opposition to Judge W.A. Garrity's order has not subsided, the initial wave of press coverage that swamped the city with banner headlines has at least ebbed to the bottom of the front page. Boston's daily press published a chronicle of its reaction to the issue on its own pages over the last 14 days, and the record shows a "fourth estate" involved too deeply in a sea of consequences it claimed to report...
...notion that played even longer and louder outside the U.S. than it did in Peoria. For many months there was general agreement in a number of foreign capitals that the relentless pursuit of Nixon through Watergate amounted to a kind of dangerously irresponsible "lynch law," as a strident London Times editorial put it a year ago. But by last week overseas perceptions of the nature of America's often puzzling struggle over Watergate had changed almost completely. As a comment on the Nixon doctrine of presidential indispensability, the muted world reaction to his abdi cation was devastating...