Word: wail
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...symposium, however, is not simply a wail from intellectuals who feel the constrictions of American culture. Approaching the problem less subjectively, social scientists like Margaret Mead and David Riesman present a more balanced view of American society, and several contributors, notably Kronenberger and Sidney Hook turn their fire on the posturings of the intellectuals rather than on the inadequacies of American culture. Kronenberger asks whether "our literary intellectuals are not more aloof than alienated . . . we might wish for a few children who should cry out from time to time: 'But the Emperor has no clothes...
...abdomen and the quick, dramatic extraction of the full-term baby. The TV audience was cut in again just in time to see Gordon, already swabbed down, get his umbilical cord tied, his mouth drained of mucus and drops put in his eyes. Gordon's response: a lusty wail. For her pains, Mrs. Kerr got a $100 defense bond...
...favor ites. There are Humpty Dumpties for a dime, giant elephants for more than $100, Teddy bears, now celebrating their 50th anniversary, that are chemically treated to keep them free of dust. Dolls do just about everything (eat, burp, nibble fin gers, frown, pucker lips, blow soap bubbles, wet, wail, walk, and recite verse...
...ground; the camera tilting crazily, as if it were careering through the sky, while focused on Tycoon Richardson shakily listening in his office to a radio report of a crucial test. Through the picture, like a macabre musical motif, runs a sonic soundtrack: great swooping wooshes, the piercing wail of the Vickers Supermarine 535 Swift as it dives from 40,000-ft. heights toward the buffeting, invisible barrier of sound...
...African colonies. Amalia's fado is more sentimental. It differs, too, from the singing of other Portuguese fadistas, just as Bessie Smith's blues differ from Pearl Bailey's. Amalia, who is steeped in her country's Moorish musical tradition, alternates a passionate, reedy wail with a tone of warm caress. She thinks that Rosemary Clooney's current song, Half as Much, is the closest thing to U.S. fado...