Word: whisperer
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...crave for freedom, we denounce (in a whisper) anyone who ventures to doubt the desirability and necessity for total freedom in our country (meaning, in all probability, freedom not for everyone but certainly for the favored few). But we wait for this freedom to fall to our lot like some sudden, unexpected miracle that will occur without any effort on our part. We ourselves are doing nothing to gain this freedom. Never mind the old traditions of supporting people in political trouble, feeding the fugitive, sheltering the passportless or the homeless (we might lose our state-controlled jobs). Day after...
...poet has become an old-man at the fireside not a tortured and self-torturing ego but a satisfied, even smug, old man who can whisper the sentiments of others because he feels them himself...
...what cost such sudden prosperity? The question, which began as an ecological whisper, eventually rose to a roar as Maine residents took stock of their land and lifestyle. An oil refinery would bring jobs to poor coastal towns Like Eastport, but a single spill might pollute the water from Canada to Kittery. Land developers could expand the tax base, but the quiet, smalltown shops on Maine's streets might be run out of town by tacky shopping malls...
Stone to call his book on the period The Haunted Fifties. Historian Fred J. Cook is harsher: his volume is entitled The Nightmare Decade. "To the young generation of today," writes Cook, "it may seem fantastic that for a whole decade there was hardly a whisper of dissent in the land." It was not necessarily for want of courage. Public protest and massive dissent were akin to the four-minute mile: until the first demonstration, the feat was assumed to be impossible; after that, the deluge...
...provocative questions that will get to the bottom of it all--except that more often than not, his questions are designed to bear out his own assumptions about what people are thinking. Here is Kremen on his first day at a U.S. Steel plant in Chicago: "Hey,' I whisper to the fellow next to me with the big, blond mustache, 'are there always so many spades looking for jobs around here?"" Kremen is so determined to expose white workers for their racism that he asks one every chapter or so what they think of the "niggers," but he never seems...