Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Demonstrators, most of them youths from right-wing groups, appeared at some of Brandt's stops with signs saying GERMANS GO HOME and WE WONT FORGIVE THE GERMAN MURDERS. The mood of the Israeli people as a whole seemed much less strident. A poll taken just before Brandt's arrival showed 66% in favor of the visit, and in Jerusalem he was greeted by friendly crowds chanting...
...more temperate in his remarks when students return in the Fall. If he continues to hint at bringing the war machine back to Harvard, people just might take him at his word, and the quiet that prevailed here these past months will be punctured again by noisy and strident demonstrations...
...between good and evil, a contrast which blurs into varying shades of grey on other issues. The criminal apocalypses that seemed so imminent at many junctures over the past decade tend to appear juvenile in retrospect. With the war nearly over, the imperatives for action are less obvious, less strident...
...care with even the shortest scene, the slightest ges ture, and what power Wedding in White possesses draws from the impact of accumulated detail. Beyond some few grace notes of style, though, Wedding in White is a film without subtlety or surprise. Fruet's script is heavy and strident. This oblique anger, mingled with a certain pitilessness, makes Wedding in White a sort of supercilious soap opera, an attack with no sure target...
...general sense that everything is back to normal on the nation's campuses -that young people have happily gone back to their books after all the malaise and general hell-raising of the late '60s. But actually the discontent has not disappeared; it has only become less strident. Although there were large increases in the numbers of women and blacks in last fall's freshman classes, the rate of college attendance among white males is the lowest in eight years. Of the nation's white 18-and 19-year-old youths, 47.3% were in college...