Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Div School is a center for many diverse activist groups, the most vocal and visible is the movement against nuclear arms...
...opera's weaknesses outweigh its strengths. They include awkwardly leaping, ungrateful vocal lines, a wearisome tendency to have everything sung fortissimo, an ultimate sameness of musical vocabulary, and a dramatic shift at the end from an 18th century moral object lesson to a Götterdämmerung of destruction that occurs on "the last day of the earth." Nor was the Boston performance much help. The work was slackly conducted and indifferently staged by Caldwell and only sporadically well sung, principally by Morgan, Hunter and Freni, and John Brandstetter as one of Marie's military lovers...
...review board--the only feasible way of scanning all letters of recommendation--would not only invade privacy rights, but would probably insure that most letters would be substantially identical. But, while the "golden rule" policy may prove difficult to police on a regular basis, it can be strengthened through vocal advocacy and vigorous enforcement in cases of negligence that come to the school's attention...
...spite of Congressional initiatives, an increasingly vocal opposition movement in the United States and a hopeless and spiraling escalation of violence in El Salvador, the Reagan Administration continues to support a military solution to the Salvadoran conflict. The Administration recently cent $55 million in emergency military assistance to the Salvadoran junta and has initiated a program in which the U.S. Army is training 1600 Salvadoran soldiers and officers in the United States. Military and to El Salvador could rise to over $100 million next year, accompanied by an increase in the number of military advisors...
There was enthusiastic vocal support from the small crowd built was clear from the start that a few screams of "Let's go Harvard" would not be enough to save the sturggling hoopsters from defeat...