Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return to civility in the legal profession. He urged stronger disciplinary measures by the profession itself, for the "tiny fragment" of lawyers who employ more adrenaline than judgment in court (see box). He also criticized the actions of some journalists and students who, he maintained, contributed to the rising swell of public incivility. As TIME Washington Correspondent Dean Fischer reported last week, the reasons for Chief Justice Burger's impassioned appeal run deep...
...observed that "when one wolf starts howling, like Franco Corelli in Verdi's 'Di quella pira' from 11 Trovatore, the rest of the wolves join in, as in the choral sections of 'Di quella pira.' " He found that the best wolf virtuosos "start pianissimo, swell to a messa di voce to the sixth above, hold it sweetly and purely, then perhaps embellish to the upper partial before going down to a pianissimo and trailing off on an inconclusive microtonality near the tonic." Although some wolves have a range of more than an octave, Schonberg noted...
Aranson seems almost to have been born on the wharves of Nan tucket. He walks with sea legs. The floorboards become a deck, rolling under his feet with the long, steady rhythm of an ocean swell. There are fogs, stars, spars and billowing sails in his voice...
...April 24 march, which is scheduled for both Washington and San Francisco, has been endorsed by a number of liberal Congressmen, whose ranks swell daily. They include Bella Abzug, Michael Harrington, and Benjamin Rosenthal in the House, and George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Harold Hughes, Philip Hart, and Vance Hartke in the Senate. In addition, there are the old Moratorium standbys (John Lindsay, Francis Sargent, and retired Army General Hugh Hester) lending their endorsement, if not their presence...
...Faculty does not want to upset the present departmental balance. They argue that an influx of women coupled with a decrease in men, would swell the ranks of departments such as English, History and Social Relations, leave the labs of the scientific departments empty. Then what would Harvard do with her expensive new Science Center and all her tenured professors? The Faculty claims that women tend to avoid science concentration. Interestingly, Cox's Committee reported last March that women at all-women colleges concentrate in applied sciences in larger numbers than do women at co-educational colleges...