Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poisoned Water. Not that Wilson occupies an easy position. Caught between the party's antiMarket majority and its vocal pro-Marketeers, he cannot hope to please everyone. As Harold Lever, an ardently pro-Market M.P., put it: "Poor Harold Wilson! If he drank the water, it was poisoned. If he didn't drink, he'd die of thirst...
...Italy's Constitutional Court upheld the law. The specific issue, raised in an appeal by a Siena tribunal, was whether church marriages can be dissolved by a civil court. The court held that they could. This left popular referendum as the only recourse left for Italy's vocal anti-divorzisti to quash the divorce law. They had already anticipated that move the week before in submitting 1,370,134 signatures-nearly three times the number required-petitioning for a referendum to abrogate...
...forewarned policemen at Rome's Fiumicino Airport, hustled away, searched, and-after promising to return $40,000 to Promoter Radaelli -finally allowed to board a plane for New York. "I'll come back for you," she shouted to fans cheering from the terminal terrace. Her famed vocal cords sounded as strong as ever...
...POLEMICAL ROARERS are the most visible and vocal. Today they form part of the leading edge of youthful dissent and are largely responsible for the present popularity of poetry readings as a kind of folk festival. Their roots go back to the late '50s, when shaggy beatniks bellowed into the smoke-filled darkness along San Francisco's North Beach. Their once and probably future guru is Allen Ginsberg, now 45, and his Howl ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness") is still the best of the genre. Ginsberg made the poet into a folk...
...nothing else, admen and their increasingly vocal critics agree on one thing: the need to upgrade the methods of mass persuasion that sell the nation's products. Powerful critics in and out of Government are bent on forcing tough reforms. The Federal Trade Commission in particular has been working inventively to root out deceptive ads. In a variety of actions it has challenged some advertising of giant companies including Coca-Cola, ITT, Continental Baking, Standard Oil of California, Du Pont, Mattel and MacDonald's hamburger chain. In response, ad agencies and their clients are now taking their most...