Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CALIFORNIA SUITE (Reprise). As a singer, Mel Torme is known as "the velvet fog"; as a composer he is known scarcely at all. Yet Torme is responsible for at least four songs that have become standards in the repertory. Sammy Davis Jr. gives A Stranger in Town a stronger performance than Torme's original, and his rendition of Born to Be Blue is the best since the late Mildred Bailey made it her own. While the California Suite is billed as Torme's "major composition" on this album, it is memorable chiefly as the sort of thing...
This position, which was approved at a meeting of the Faculty Oct. 7, climaxes months of sporadic debate. A minority group in the Ed School had pressed for an even stronger statement, flatly rejecting any Government contracts that require security clearances...
...Queen was coming, and many French Canadians thought Elizabeth of England was unwelcome. Like an old sore suddenly scraped open, French nationalism is raging anew in Quebec after two centuries of British domination. An impatient generation of French Canadians demands more autonomy and a stronger voice in the country's affairs. Some even preach outright secession from English Canada; the more passionate have been punctuating their cries with mailbox bombings, arms raids and threats against the Queen's visit-even her life...
...there lies the trouble. In the last few years, the long-smoldering antagonism between English and French Canadians has erupted in bitter, open division. Centered in the province of Quebec, French Canadians are in revolt against what they regard as a century of British domination; they demand a stronger voice in federal affairs and greater provincial autonomy. A small but growing number wants to split Canada into separate nations; a few even preach violence against everything British in Canada, including Queen Elizabeth...
Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal urged that a stronger declaration was "a necessary act of a renewed church...