Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson said he was unable to deny speculation among students that "the real motivation behind the Commission's sudden interest in campus radio is related to a desire to control a medium which is run by a generation of students who have become politically vocal, often in opposition to Establishment wars and other values...
Then in the 1950s, his vocal cords abruptly hemorrhaged. MCA, the giant talent agency, dropped him. Eventually he sold himself (though some say the mob helped) to Columbia for an insulting $8,000 to play Maggio in From Here to Eternity. That won him the Oscar for best supporting actor of 1953. The top again: $4,000,000 to $7,000,000 a year. By then he had left his first wife, the former Nancy Barbato, and had chased, married and been divorced by Ava Gardner. "I like broads," he said, and not a few photographers got punched out trying...
When a nation is bent on the destruction of tens of thousands, the vocal protest of its citizens is, if anything, not enough protest. When will the Harvard Administration stop hiding behind the cover of "free speech" and take a moral stand? Or is that too much to ask of our self-satisfied bureaucrats...
...station for hours. He was finally charged with failure to have with him the passbook required of all blacks, but refused to pay a $7 fine and instead demanded the right to appear in court. Bishop Zulu, one of six presidents of the World Council of Churches, is a vocal opponent of apartheid. Other South African clergymen have lost their passports; they can also be detained and charged under the country's Suppression of Communism Act. That was the fate in January of the Very Rev. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, dean of Johannesburg's Anglican cathedral. Recently, as ffrench...
...expected, the freshmen unlimited match between Thayer North's Sandy Tennant and Oscar DePriest of Lionel was mildly brutal to say the least. The crowd was extremely vocal as the competitors unloaded every shot "from way back home." Tennant wonn" very close decision on the strength of his middle round performance...