Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Willem, influenced by the less strident opinions of his mother's family, began veering leftward while editing a Calvinist monthly, Word and Deed, in the mid-1950s. "I gained this insight that apartheid is not a just dispensation, not a solution for South Africa, not founded in morality, not common sense," he recalls. He began speaking out against such National Party measures for entrenching apartheid as the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the move to give blacks voting rights in so-called black homelands rather than in South Africa proper. He has committed what many Afrikaners consider...
...days before the attack, the government began to show its desperation. It organized antiliberal rallies that became unwitting parodies of the strident Red Guard style of the '60s. The authorities tried to rein in the press. Foreign correspondents were warned to stop covering student activities, but few reporters took heed. Chinese television ceased live coverage from Tiananmen Square and began carrying statements from leaders expressing support for martial law. "Nobody takes the news broadcasts seriously these days," said an office secretary. "They are all a sham...
Respondents attacked one of the law professors reportedly under consideration for the deanship. "The most strident criticism focused on [the professor's] lack of sensitivity to students and on his perceived sexist attitude in the classroom," read the committee's report. Another candidate was called insensitive to minority concerns...
...President's strident nationalism drew a sour reaction from his many critics. "Sarney declared war on the world today," said Fabio Feldman, a Congressman from Sao Paulo who is a vocal environmentalist. "He's trying to - rally public support around a discredited government." Feldman declared the Our Nature program itself "too academic and vague. It won't change a thing." Said another leading ecologist: "It is obvious that the intention of the program is not to save the Amazon but to appease foreign criticism...
...Strip punks and act as if they'd just invented adolescent angst. Vera's dad is a drunken oaf, abusing the children who hate him yet cling to him and lie to protect him. He could be the petty dictator of a pre-Gorbachev regime, and his daughter the strident soul of rebellion. In her sharp, defiant voice, you can hear the sound of breaking glasnost...