Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the University may have counted its pennies carefully deciding to transfer one custodial worker from each upperclass House to the Business School, it didn't count on vocal opposition to the move-from students, union officials, and some House masters...
Edward Hoagland is another essayist who has earned his style through adversity. A novelist of modest reputation before turning to the essay (Cat Man in 1956 and The Circle Home in 1960), Hoagland has spent much of his childhood and adult life as a stutterer. ("Being in these vocal handcuffs made me a devoted writer at twenty. I worked like a dog, choosing each word.") Hoagland's style is consonant with the idea that the essay is a variety of "conversational writing." Unshackled, Hoagland converses recklessly, wildly, an abundance of critical detail and blinding enthusiasm fueling his abrupt transitions from...
...unpopular side of Chun's populism has been his unflinching use of repressive measures against opponents. Kim Dae Jung, 54, the vocal opposition leader, is currently being tried for sedition, a charge that the U.S. State Department calls farfetched. Another former rival, Kim Jong Pil, 54, onetime Prime Minister and head of the ruling Democratic Republican Party, is recuperating from 46 days of detention and grilling by the military. Still under house arrest is Kim Young Sam, 52, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, who has renounced politics altogether. Chun has also imposed rigid military censorship...
Beverly Sills, on the transition from singing to running the New York City Opera company: "Now, instead of two vocal cords, I have to worry about...
Tabatabai had been a popular figure around Washington in his days as press attaché at the Shah's embassy. After the fall of the regime, he organized the Iran Freedom Foundation, a vocal anti-Khomeini group that denounced the Ayatullah's regime with leaflets churned out in Tabatabai's basement. The police were quick to launch a man hunt after an eyewitness culled through 400 photos of Muslim militants...