Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the match, which Harvard usually wins-the squad was undefeated last fall and is 2-1 so far this season--comes Siones traditional war dance. All 14 teammates encircle him, slapping their thighs and giving enthusiastic vocal accompaniment, while Sione carries out the "sacred" team ritual. A beer party follows on the sidelines as players from both sides drink and exchange pleasantries. On certain weekends, Sione throws his famous pig roast...
Rapid social upheaval has turned American conservatism from a non-vocal philosophy concerned primarily with local issues into a full-scale national movement, according to Harvard sociology professor David Riesman...
...city's ghetto schools. Mayor John Lindsay, wearing a yarmulke, was jeered and insulted in a Brooklyn synagogue by a teacher-dominated audience as he tried to explain his stand on the strike. Shanker himself was shouted off the stage at a Manhattan meeting by a highly vocal crowd of black parents, who called him a white racist...
...property. This is perhaps the public's first civil right. No responsible element quarrels with it. It is ironic that law and order, at best the glory of any society and at least an unobjectionable cliche, should have turned into a controversy. Partly it has happened because many vocal protesters put forth the old but troubling idea that, in certain circumstances, law and order must be defied for the sake of a higher justice...
...former $50-a-week secretary on Nashville's Music Row commands prime-time television bookings, $15,000-per-night personal appearances, and record royalties that may amount to $150,000 by year's end. So although she is still in the first grade in the vocal department, she has graduated with honors in tax brackets. The benefits are already evident in her household. Her 25-year-old husband Mitchell has just retired from his job as gas jockey at a Nashville service station...