Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sealed Bids. One vocal critic of the Kissinger floor plan, Economist Arthur Okun, argues that the consuming nations can best cope with OPEC by bargaining with them individually. If the consuming nations were to insist on, say, taking sealed bids for their oil-import needs, Okun says, some OPEC nations would be sure to start breaking the price line sooner or later. In any case, Okun worries, if the consuming countries try to deal with the producers as a bloc they might just "solidify the position of OPEC as a bargaining agent for its member nations...
...certain that if posters of the black, female or other minority groups began to be defaced there would be immediate and vocal outrage. Gay people, however, are faced with the unique disadvantage of the fear and consequences of being "found out" publicly. Because of the oppression of society and particularly of this university, we cannot easily go out and demonstrate for our rights as we might like to. We can only ask, most likely in vain, that the university authorities try to correct this bigoted, repressive behavior and deal with individuals taking part...
...Iran, the middle class is rapidly spreading and the gross national product is expanding at an astounding rate of 50% a year. The Shah, who aims to turn Iran into "the Japan of West Asia," argued for price increases long before Faisal did, and he has been even more vocal than the Saudi King in urging that prices stay...
...Androcles and the lion. Another suggests that the biblical story of the Tower of Babel is a myth explaining the origin of languages. "We object to books that ridicule a child's faith and treat biblical stories as fables," says Mrs. Alice Moore, a school-board member and vocal opponent of the teaching materials. "The inference in many of these texts is that the Bible is nothing but a book written by men and not to be taken literally...
...feel about the need for opera in English, an all-Russian Boris is infinitely preferable to Chaliapin singing in Russian and everyone else in Italian, as used to happen at the Met. More important, the singers seem to like singing it in Russian. Why? Because Mussorgsky's vocal writing bobs and weaves, rises and falls to the natural conversational flow of the Russian words. Boris' realistic-in a sense unoperatic-style of recitative is perhaps Mussorgsky's greatest innovation and contribution to future operatic composers. Says Conductor Schippers: "Boris influenced so many composers-Puccini, Stravinsky, Janacek, even...