Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capacity to play a global role. Variously disbelieving, saddened, sickened and cynical, many Americans, too, lost faith in leaders who had betrayed their trust. One who had most blatantly done so was Spiro T. Agnew, an acerbic apostle of righteousness who had thrived as Nixon's Vice President on strident demands for harsh judgments against all who disagreed with his own rigid concepts of acceptable ideology and permissible?but never permissive?behavior. Then, faced with overwhelming evidence of his own criminal corruptness and petty greed in accepting graft from Maryland contractors, Agnew successively claimed innocence, lashed out at his accusers...
There is the essence of a very fine interpretation of Macbeth's relation to Lady M. here, but it tends to get trampled underfoot as the play progresses, largely due to lack of clarity in Marianna Houston's over-strident presentation of the queen's role. The returning soldier clasps his wife passionately to him, and we have a fairly good idea how she might be persuasive with him, but too many chances to confirm this in the dialogue are missed. There is a power in such moments as when Macbeth roughly rubs his lady's belly with the words...
...their skipping ropes. Canton's mood is relaxed, visibly so in the curious but friendly glances foreigners get, or in the newly repainted names of stores: MOON BEAM FRUIT STORE and EASTERN SEA HERBAL MEDICINES now glow in soft pastels where only a few years ago there were strident slogans in gaudy...
...minorities are the life-blood of Cambridge--blacks, landlords, the rich, Italians, students, the poor, Catholics, intellectuals, etc. Since each minority is equally unpopular and equally strident in its demands for a share of political power, PR remains in Cambridge, its last pure bastion in the country...
...this non-expert on the Middle East who has no solutions to offer, your editorial, "Israelis and Arabs: No One Is Right" (October 16) was encouraging in its sobriety and awareness of tragedy. I would add one further comment for pondering by your editors and readers, namely, that the strident calls for the release of Soviet Jews coming from this country not only frighten the Russians but also frighten the Arabs, since they add to the image of an indefinitely expansionist Israel. The sad fact is that many of the nationalities within the Soviet Union would like to emigrate: Ukrainians...