Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanks to his vocal and vehement advocacy of civil rights for his fellow blacks, Georgia State Legislator Julian Bond has earned ten honorary degrees in the past three years. Not bad for a 1961 dropout from Atlanta's Morehouse College. Last week, though, after completing a long-overdue term paper on the crisis in education, Bond became a 31-year-old college graduate and happily collected the most prized degree of all: his own, a B.A. from Morehouse in English...
Opponents range from right-wing Tories and M.P.s with farming and fishing constituencies to left-wingers who see the Market as just that-a soulless bazaar dedicated only to profits and consumption. The most vocal opponent of all is Enoch Powell, the leading Tory right-winger, who has been traveling throughout the Six to explain why a majority of Britons feel "a repugnance" toward joining the EEC. Says Powell: "The principal events which have placed their stamp upon our consciousness of who we are were the very ones in which we have been alone, confronting a Europe that was lost...
...might have seemed surprising that, only a month after the election, Nixon would have chosen one of his most vocal antagonists as a leading policy aide. But the two men had much more in common than anyone would previously have supposed...
Snares and Trumpets. The result, a two-act, two-hour TV opera, was broadcast jointly last weekend by the BBC and America's NET. As it turned out, Owen Wingrave was something less than Britten's best. Though carefully modulated for the home listener, the vocal writing showed little warmth or melodic appeal. The score, for a busy 46-piece orchestra, with snares and trumpets to underline the military motif and bright, chiming, exotic percussive passages more suggestive of Bali than Victorian England, rarely conveyed resonances of gothic mystery...
...Kunen and Kelman, or Mungo and Gerzon altogether matches up with your own private view of the world? The already panicking adult community is not apt to have much patience with our own whining protest that we too are being equally victimized-even if only by our own more vocal peers...