Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Massachusetts residents are pro-choice; most Catholics in the state are pro-choice. However, most choice supporters do not vote. Low turn-out and confusion over the wording of the referendum is cause for concern for those who are pro-choice. The anti-choice contingent is well funded, vocal and sure to turn up at the polls. As long as the outcome of the vote on November 4 remains in doubt, so does the reproductive freedom of all women in this state...
Increasingly, university life impinged on public affairs and vice versa. When prominent alumni were infuriated by young Lecturer Harold Laski's vocal support of a Boston police strike in 1919, Lowell said, "If the overseers ask for Laski's resignation, they will get mine...
Stephen L. Saltonstall '67, an 11th-generation Harvard Saltonstall, was a member of Students for a Democratic Society during his Harvard years and was an early and vocal opponent of the Vietnam...
...holy city of Qom. By week's end the government claimed to have crushed two Iraqi-sponsored "terrorist networks," made up of both monarchists and leftist guerrillas, that Tehran held responsible for the bombings. In London, another bomb shattered a video store belonging to Reza Fazeli, a vocal Khomeini critic. Tehran and the mujahedin blamed each other for the blast, which killed Fazeli's 22-year-old son Bijan...
Budgeted at $3 million and cast largely with Americans, the Seattle Ring is not in the vocal class of Bayreuth, the Met or San Francisco. Yet Sooter gives a strong, noble account of himself, as does Baritone Julian Patrick as a robust, crafty Alberich. Soprano Johanna Meier makes a touching, feminine Sieglinde and Tenor Emile Belcourt a slick Loge. In the crucial role of Brunnhilde, Soprano Linda Kelm displays a huge voice and an enviable ease of vocal production, but she needs more refinement and a better stage presence before the part will belong to her. Presiding musically...