Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate over U.S. policy in El Salvador has intensified, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has emerged as a highly vocal opponent of the Reagan Administration's position. The American bishops are against all forms of military aid to El Salvador and favor a negotiated settlement between that country's ruling junta and its left-wing guerrillas...
...high drama or for that matter for good singing or dancing. With the exception of Ken Hodder as the professor whose underwear must be too tight and Greg Martin, as the future real estate tycoon, this cast would get cut from most House productions. Several of the solo vocal numbers simply embarrass the audience as well as the performers. Actors (23 of em shuffle, awkwardly in huge packs on and off the stage toting Peanuts-style two-dimensional trees for the nature scenes and a dissipated desk and chair, which indicate action indoors. Dialogue drones endlessly, and the only truly...
...Alain Gomez, 43, a graduate of the elite Ecole Nationale d'Administration (E.N.A.) and onetime Harvard Business School student, who will lead Thomson-Brandt, an electronics and home appliance firm. A founder of the Socialist Party's vocal left wing, Gomez is probably the most ideological of the appointees. But his training and twelve years' experience as an executive at the newly nationalized Saint-Gobain-Pont-a-Mousson, a diversified glassmaker, give him impeccable business credentials...
Mugabe said ominously that "the law will now take its course" against Nkomo and dismissed three other key ZAPU party members, though he stopped short of firing four others. The apparent attempt to confine the sackings to a few ZAPU leaders for the moment undercut increasingly vocal complaints from opposition critics, especially among Zimbabwe's 210,000 whites, that Mugabe is moving to establish a one-party state...
Pick an excuse any excuse as to why you, a vocal member of that vaunted contingent known as the Harvard hockey faithful, weren't at last Tuesday's 6-3 win over Northeastern at Bright Center...