Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less strident than Sholokhov's attack was a report from the Russian Writers Union. The report, printed in the Literary Gazette, charged that Solzhenitsyn had "joined hands with the opponents of the Soviet social system," and that his two banned novels, which were published abroad over his vehement protests, "have become a weapon in the hands of our class enemies." The report even suggested that Solzhenitsyn leave Russia for the West, "where his anti-Soviet works and letters are always received with such delight...
...things can go no farther than Z: the alphabet and the ideological film. Traditionally, political movies tend to be newsreels with strident sound tracks or windy polemics pretending to be conversation. Scenarist Jorge Semprun (La Guerre Est Finie) knows better. So does Director Costa-Gavras (Sleeping Car Murder), who correctly calls Z an "adventure film" against a system...
...Mobe, though it has a middle-aged leadership, attracted to Washington and San Francisco a youthful following. The Moratorium events, though organized by McCarthy campaign veterans who are mostly in their 20s and early 30s, managed to draw a broader cross section of support because of their less strident tone. A number of public officials who participated fully in the October Moratorium wanted nothing to do with the New Mobe's operation, for the most part because they feared becoming associated with radicals who might cause violence. Among the prominent dropouts: Senators Edmund Muskie, Edward Kennedy, Frank Church and Jacob...
...senior Faculty member in Stander's department has observed a contrast between Stauder last spring and Stauder this fall: "In his interpersonal relationships this fall, he seems to be chastened. While not abridging his liberal radical principles, he seems quieter, less strident. He seems to be less nervous, less jumby, more open. Last spring, I really judged him more by his public behavior. This fall. I'm judging him more by conversations in my office and parties in his home. He's really a nice...
...Such sentiments are fueling a relatively new, vibrant nationalism of both right and left that frequently finds expression in strident anti-Americanism...