Word: declaimed
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...emergence of a coherent Arab-Asian bloc at a time when East-West hostility has been more subdued in U.N. debates has been the dominant fact of the U.N.'s tenth session. In their eagerness to declaim against colonialism and race discrimination, the Arab-Asians have not always bothered to be responsible, and Western delegates smolder at a nation like Yemen attempting to pass judgment on someone else's devotion to liberty and progress...
...declaim the Advocate's poetry would slight Brock Brower's "Deucalion." A somewhat cynical, somewhat humorous affair on God's creation of man, Brower's easy meter and obscure, as well as obvious, metaphors give the poem a freshness unique in the issue. Frederick Seidel's "Not Too Damn Much Happens In the Spring" is a startling amalgam of Keats, Eliot, Cummings, . . . and apparently Seidel...
...steeplechasers rode a doughty little ex-schoolma'am of 62 named, by exquisitely suitable happenstance, Miss Georgina Horsfall. Her motherly white mane set askew by news that the Queen Mother herself had entered a horse in the Grand National, Miss Horsfall cantered all the way from Leeds to declaim before a meeting of the Cruel Sports group: "I think it is scandalous that the royal family should have horses in these races...
...dialogue also gets pretty rich at times as the various characters stop dead in their tracks to declaim theatrically to the camera (to point up the artificiality, the picture opens and closes, like a stage play, with a stage curtain...
...schoolboys fondly recite Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty, or give me death," so Israeli schoolboys like to declaim the Psalmist's powerful text: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning...