Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of prelates-perhaps as many as 20 of the country's 80 bishops-who are growing impatient for social change and a swift return to democracy. Archbishop Jaime Francisco de Nevares of Neuquen, in a poor region of Argentina along the Chilean border, is among the most vocal of the new activists. "We have a reputation for being moderate," he says acidly, charging that "Argentine bishops have not spoken out strongly enough against injustice" in the country. "Had we taken a stronger stand, much suffering could have been avoided." What might have worked to curb the excesses...
...high and unpredictable are the social and ecological costs that an environmental debate has broken out in the Soviet Union. Ignoring the strictures against public dissent, an increasingly vocal group of Soviet climatologists, historians and distinguished citizens have joined local protesters-to say nothing of worried scientists abroad-in strong criticism of the scheme. The argument has even reached the staid columns of the influential weekly Literary Gazette, where one economist, uncharacteristically outspoken for a Soviet official, argued that it would be economically disastrous to tamper with nature on such a grandiose scale...
...almost from the day Argentina seized the Falkland Islands: that there was no way the U.S. could side with Britain, a loyal NATO ally, without alienating much of Latin America. Venezuelan President Luis Herrera Campins, a U.S. friend only a few months ago and now Argentina's most vocal supporter in South America, declared last month: "It is already clear that the country that will lose the most in this confrontation between Britain and Latin America will be the U.S." Panama President Aristides Royo has accused the U.S. of betraying its Latin neighbors by "changing hats and choosing sides...
Microphones probably are necessary in some of the new barns that pass for theaters, and doubtless are needed in some rock musicals. But many producers and actors have enough love for the theater to resist their use in straight plays. "Vocal training is part of the craft, and it is up to the actor, not the soundman, to reach those people in the back row," adds James Earl Jones, who is doing just that as the jealous Moor in the current Broadway production of Othello. "You can project not just with volume, but with clarity and unexpected variations in rhythm...
Marglin makes it clear he expects the status quo will continue unless students become vocal in demanding change, as they were in the late '60s, Meanwhile, he maintains his lonely outpost at the top of Littauer, surrounded by his mainstream colleagues There he waits for the political ride to shift, once again bringing his views into the center of debate. Maybe then, it students provide the impetus, he will no longer face isolation in the department Of the current situation, he says, "I think the real lonely are the students...