Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work depends upon a great singing actress for its ultimate effect. Emilia Marty should be beautiful, venomous, sinister and finally tragic. Her music is strident and etched in acid but when Marty accepts death, it soars toward the sublime. California-born Soprano Maralin Niska, singing her twelfth role with the New York City Opera, was almost up to her demanding role. Niska's voice is bright and well cultivated rather than monumental, but at her best she left no doubt what Janáček had in mind. She is a superb actress who lacks only a measure...
What brought on Nixon's strident outburst was a physical assault on his campaign motorcade in San Jose, Calif., during the closing week of the campaign. It was an attack that came dangerously close to disaster, but it played perfectly into the President's political hands. Throughout the campaign, Nixon and Vice President Agnew have tried to win Republican votes through popular resentment against extremist-and sometimes not so extremist-dissidents. At times, small groups of hecklers were deliberately allowed into his audiences, just numerous and noisy enough to enable Nixon to score the points he wanted...
...enterprise. It is for this reason that we tend to be manic-depressive in our view of ourselves: one moment the greatest, strongest country on earth, the hope of the world; the next moment on the brink of decay and disaster. That is why American patriotism can be so strident, so naive, so defensive. The fiercest insistence that this is God's country, the most devout treatment of the flag as an icon, suggest an inner doubt, a sense of impermanence and vulnerability. The trouble is not excessive nationalism but, on the contrary, inadequate nationalism-if we define...
...orphan army." Though its authorized strength of 460,000 makes it NATO's largest European land army, it has been plagued by poor pay, rundown garrisons, manpower shortages (the Bundeswehr is below strength by 2,600 officers and 25,000 noncoms) and inept civilian leadership. Reacting to the strident heel clicking of the Nazi era, the public held the military in low esteem-an attitude abetted by baggy, dull gray uniforms that made even generals look like sloppy bus drivers...
...until the areas of authority are clearly worked out. Five such councils are already operating on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and in the northern border regions of Valle D'Aosta, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where the demand for local government has been particularly strident. In this week's elections members of similar councils are being selected in the 15 other principal regions of mainland Italy. Twelve of the 15 lean toward the Christian Democrats. In the others, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria, which constitute the Red Belt above Rome, Communists are expected...