Word: whirrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confusion Compounded. At once, the capital's rumor mills, always idling, started to whirr in high gear with the message that there had been a coup and that key officers had been arrested. Riot police carrying wicker shields and tear gas began to cruise around the city, on guard for demonstrations; there were none. The confusion was compounded when a high-ranking government official leaked word that a coup attempt had been thwarted. Other officials denied there had been such an attempt, and President Thieu felt it necessary to go on nationwide radio and television to announce that there...
...Courage, made her an ardent, spunky, dutiful young girl, and graced her with luck as well as pluck. The Caucasian Chalk Circle's essential mood is playful and bucolic. But anything bucolic in this repertory production at New York's Lincoln Center is lost in the grinding whirr of revolving stages and the clanking rise and fall of scenery. The music, crucial to any decent Brecht production, seems to have been composed by a tone-deaf mute. Watching the cast's birdlike masks and flaming Oriental finery is far better than watching their acting, for the troupe...
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...Dial the new number. Wait until you hear a maddening shrieking electronic whirr. This is a signal that the number you have dialed does not exist...
After a time his voice rather gets on your nerves, even though an impersonal tone is perhaps just right for this kind of poetry. Much of Eliot's violent and intellectually lush symbolism really is a way of escaping from the whirr and bang of feelings into an impersonal, almost codified moral and aesthetic order; and his reading, like his poetry, too often has the deadness and woodenness of perfect peace. Even when Eliot reads a passage like this from his New Hampshire "Landscape...