Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This may still be true; but the French are no longer so sure. Since the negotiations for the cease-fire began various extreme groups have become increasingly vocal in their doubts about the effectiveness of the liberation of Algeria. On the left, the extreme Socialists headed by Sartre have coined their theory of involution--that the violence of the Algerian war has infected and corrupted Metropolitan France. The group that has done most to eat away the confidence of France in her essential stability, however, is the Organization de l'Armee Secrete. It has been the basic purpose...
...Determined to raise a conscript army in addition to the existing workers' militia, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht's regime sent out draft orders to 524,000 men. The move provoked a rare outburst of vocal opposition. Ex-servicemen wrote indignant letters to the press recalling their pledge-signed when they were released from Soviet P.W. camps-never to bear arms again. In embarrassed newspeak, Communist officials reassured the veterans that they "need not worry about breaking the pledge. You are being called to protect freedom, to help the Soviet Union protect the working class...
...survival of politics in the cold war. Those who support the present Administration dare not express their approval by inaction--and if they wish to preserve the political viability of present policies, much less any liberalization of them, it would perhaps be wise that their more liberal views find vocal expression. It is vital to the nation's political survival that Congress realize that the Administration has national support for its foreign policies; it is essential that this support be vocalized if the Administration is to have any chance to liberalize its policies without alienating the Congress. It is deceptively...
Only skillful vocal ensembles singing in the contrapuntal style of the sixteenth century Italian madrigal can share the tone of the whole concert: fluid, flexible, continuous. And although occasionally their pitches wandered and attacks scattered, in their masterful moments the madrigal singers made a good case for a revival of the form...
Even more important than support of specific issues or so-called "peace candidates," Gottlieb said participants in the Washington Project would be providing vocal political support for the type of long-range program announced by President Kennedy in his UN speech in September...