Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other words, to use a coined term, the Rangers are social dynamite. Their membership numbers upwards of 1500, ranging in age from young teens to twenty-two year old leaders. As a gang the Rangers carry a big charge; a charge so energetic and vocal that it thrusts the Rangers into a new classification markedly different from past teenage street gangs...
That is roughly how a Barbara Garson of the 1930s might have written the Macbird! of that era. As Robert Bendiner's book suggests, the virulent abuse poured on the Roosevelts by a small but vocal portion of the public matches the feelings of today's left toward Lyndon Johnson...
...Kosh (Elsie) had the best voices; their singing made Sullivan's score sound like the more-than-respectable operatic music it is. Norma Levin's Phoebe was marred by singing that borrowed too much from the coyness of musical comedy. However, her acting more than made up for her vocal failings Mary Duffy as Dame Carruthers was, with the Yeomen, the only real musical disappointment of the evening. Totally oblivious to rhythm, projection, conductor, and pitch, she barely got through her own number and came near to ruining the ensembles in which she took part...
Presiding over the court was Chief Justice Earl Warren, who as attorney general of California in 1942 had been vocal in demanding that Japanese-Americans be evacuated from their West Coast homes. On the bench was Justice Abe Fortas, who as wartime Under Secretary of the Interior had protested the mass lockups. Justice Tom Clark, who had been the Justice Department's representative in California a quarter of a century ago and worked with the military in detaining the Japanese-Americans, did not participate in the decision...
Until recently, the worse the war became, the more vocal opposition it created. Now, Johnson's "hard line" has pulled the props out from under the liberal-moderate congressional objectors who in their image-conscious way have depended for much of their legitimacy on the President's propaganda about limited objectives, early withdrawal and desires to negotiate...