Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dutch men, women and children stayed home. Americans should know that most West Europeans expressed themselves on the issue of missile deployment when they elected conservative governments that support NATO and the proposed defense of Western Europe. The majority of people in these countries will not bow to a vocal, skillfully misled minority...
...these practical considerations don't address the central problem. The Constitution guarantees the right to assemble peaceably and demonstrate against the government; but this should have been limited to either the silent protest described above, or the vocal demonstration held outside Sanders earlier in the day. A certain amount of vocal audience reaction is unavoidable and indeed desirable. Students should not sit meekly and just listen, in fact, everyone has the right to express approval or disapproval of a speaker's points, through clapping, hissing, booing, and so forth. And the 40-minute question and answer period allowed ample opportunity...
...highly vocal crowd of 150 denounced the U.S. invasion of Grenada last night at a discussion panel at the Institute of Politics forum held at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Nelson's next album, and for Iglesias' next LP they did To All the Girls I've Loved Before, which they sang together on the televised awards show. Who knows? They might even win one of the awards next time. Nelson did in fact win Vocal Duo of the Year last week. But paired with a more certified country boy, Merle Haggard...
Nature did not cast him to play princes. The watery eyes gave him a look both stoic and startled: in Kenneth Tynan's phrase, "like a Teddy bear snapped in a bad light by a child holding its first camera." The body was pear-shaped and the vocal tones were not; they pontificated, or quavered with sentiment. The hands rose and fluttered independently, articulating a sweetly deranged sign language. Ralph Richardson was no matinee idol?no ethereal saint like John Gielgud, whose beautiful voice could coax meaning out of a computer printout; no demon lover like Laurence Olivier, with hellfire...