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...Party candidate said by telephone from the boat. Taiwan has perceived the tests, scheduled to run until Friday, as a show of anger over Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui's visit to the U.S. last month. As if on cue, Beijing's official Xinhua news agency today issued a strident editorial accusing Lee of using talk of democracy to disguise dictatorial ambitions...
...strident and divisive police policy undertaken the previous fall [by the Nixon administration] had begun to reap a bitter crop," the authors write...
...sound of Buswell's instrument appeared surprisingly soft in many unmuted passages, lacking the strident clarity brought to Bartok by Szigeti or Szeryng. At times, Levinson overpowered Buswell, though the violinist appeared at the edge of his instrument's capacity. But Levinson efforts were clearly earnest; his rejection of bravado perfectly suited the work...
Koocher, however, says Thompson has had to toe Flaherty's line because of political realities. "Even if the most strident of political liberals were elected, you know damn well they'd be sucking up to Charles Flaherty, because he's the speaker," Koocher says. "You don't want the district to suffer because you're not supporting the leadership...
...right thing by his constituents,"Koocher says. "He was among the ones who tried tofind some element of reasonableness in the midstof a strident political crusade" by both landlordsand tenants...