Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seventies, the problems still remain. It is important to note that finally the Chinese have come out of their shell with the emergence of these two new groups of community activists. With anti-poverty budgets being slashed across the country, it is necessary for the Chinese to become increasingly vocal in demanding their share of government...
...apparent smoothness of the latest succession was deceptive. In 1972 Spencer Kimball had open-heart surgery; 15 years before that an operation for throat cancer left him with only a part of a vocal cord. Although he arrived at the decisive meeting of the twelve with a doctor's certification that he was in good health, many Mormons were naturally concerned about Kimball's longevity. Some even would have liked to use his health as an excuse to change the line of succession. The real reason: their fear of the accession to the presidency of Ezra Taft Benson...
Conservative members of the Democratic legislature (Sargent is Republican) began to voice opposition to the reform program, though many of them had voted for Chapter 777 before it became an issue. The most vocal was State Senator Francis X. McCann, whose district includes West Cambridge...
...with bold orchestral touches and ravishing arias made to order for an all-star cast like this. Though she does not erase memories of the Nilsson Turandot (especially in the RCA set with Tebaldi and Bjoerling), Sutherland is now the only coloratura around with the right tessitura and sufficient vocal weight-at least on records-to bring off the role of the riddle-happy princess. A delight...
That seemed reasonable. But at the A.M.A.'s semiannual convention in Anaheim, Calif., last week, the vocal majority of the 3,179 members attending were unequivocally against PSROS. Amid calls to preserve traditional liberties and the secrecy of doctor-patient relation ships, some observers heard a jarring undertone of "The patient be damned." As hyperbole and passion carried the day, the embarrassed A.M.A. leadership was forced to accept a schizophrenic compromise under which it will both try to get the PSRO law repealed and at the same time try to get it amended...