Word: vehement
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...problems--ranging from a study of Moslem cities in the Middle Ages to a recent symposium on "Public Library Functions in a Changing Metropolis." While these studies are generally of a non-controversial nature, a few of them turn out not to be. The Federal Bulldozer, Martin Anderson's vehement critique of the urban renewal program, outraged bureaucrats all over the nation, Many of those affiliated with the Center admit privately that they "got a little burned on that one" and suggest that more careful editing might have avoided the heat. But Moynihan stands firmly behind the book: "Anderson...
...guards his personal image against any controversy which might alienate voters. In Brooke, the people of Massachusetts can elect a Negro without sacrificing their own white viewpoint. He is not vehement enough on civil rights to raise any white reaction, as his failure to take a stand on a new state law withholding state aid from cities with racially imbalanced schools indicates. He is a Negro, yes, but local Negro leaders generally regard him as an Uncle Tom, and he plays the role well. He serves as president of the Opera Company of Boston and as chancellor of Old North...
...been added to the center spread, although to date it has been as bland as another addition, a quasi-gossip column, known as a diary, calculated to offend nobody. Even so, readers have already written anguished letters. The Times reassured them in an editorial: "There were far more vehement fears when the Times started a crossword puzzle. We hope that the Times diary will come to be as eagerly awaited and as highly regarded as the Times crossword...
...absurdists have heeded the admonition of their existential idol Kierkegaard, who wrote: "The comic spirit is not wild or vehement, its laughter is not shrill." Black humor has a long tradition that reached its apex in Jonathan Swift. But the humorists who dwell on death and disaster today lean too often toward the narcissistic, reflecting images of themselves as helpless heroes in a world they can neither take nor leave. Their less lugubrious colleagues, on the other hand, have been all too willing to cede the comic to the journalists and to allow the commercial to override the classic...
...Gimmicks. There is an almost machinelike singlemindedness about him. His most vehement cuss words are "darn" and "dad-gum." A jut-jawed six-footer, he never smokes, drinks little, swims and plays tennis to remain at a flat-bellied 180 Ibs.-only 10 Ibs. over his cadet weight. Says Major General Richard Stilwell, commander of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Thailand: "He has no gimmicks, no hand grenades or pearl-handled pistols. He's just a very straightforward, determined man." Few who know him doubt that he will some day be Army Chief of Staff...