Word: vocalisms
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Beverly Sills, on the transition from singing to running the New York City Opera company: "Now, instead of two vocal cords, I have to worry about...
Tabatabai had been a popular figure around Washington in his days as press attaché at the Shah's embassy. After the fall of the regime, he organized the Iran Freedom Foundation, a vocal anti-Khomeini group that denounced the Ayatullah's regime with leaflets churned out in Tabatabai's basement. The police were quick to launch a man hunt after an eyewitness culled through 400 photos of Muslim militants...
...quell unrest on college campuses during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lyman served as provost of the university for three-and-a-half years before his appointment as president. An organizer of one of the country's first teach-ins on the Vietnam War, he became less vocal publicly after assuming the presidency. He is credited with introducing important changes in Stanford's admissions and curricular policies...
...more vocal controversy this spring, the University showed the hypocrisy of its appointment policies. Bok nominated efficiency-oriented Chicago economist Arnold C. Harberger to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) without consulting the HIID Faculty Council--or considering that it might be wrong for a professor whose policies enacted in Chile caused starvation and misery to lead an institution that advises foreign governments...
University and hospital officials issued dire forecasts of imminent research and testing halts as the waste piled up in storerooms; meanwhile, the Cambridge City Council, headed by the always vocal Alfred E. Vellucci, launched an investigation...