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...necessarily loves silence," wrote Thomas Merton, who was, as a Trappist, a connoisseur, a caretaker of silences. It is no coincidence that places of worship are places of silence: if idleness is the devil's playground, silence may be the angels'. It is no surprise that silence is an anagram of license. And it is only right that Quakers all but worship silence, for it is the place where everyone finds his God, however he may express it. Silence is an ecumenical state, beyond the doctrines and divisions created by the mind. If everyone has a spiritual story to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eloquent Sounds of Silence | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...does Crystal constantly want to redeem Buddy in the viewer's eyes? Why does the film go so moist just before the final punch line? Any Buddy could tell you: because kitsch is not just an anagram for shtick. In comedy the two are soul brothers -- the entertainer's way of saying "Love me, laugh with me, laugh at me, hate me, then forgive me and love me all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny, He Looks Jewish | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...first letter of the words of the article's introduction comprises an anagram, which reads. "Happy April Fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plimpton's Hoax Places Harvard Fireballer on Mets | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...striking physical presence provides a marvelous ironic contrast to her dithering sensibility). Phil steals his own child, beats up a bubble dancer (Judith Ivey) and finally kills himself. At the end, Eddie is frantically leafing through the dictionary, hoping to find in his pal's suicide note an anagram that will reveal the meaning in an apparently meaningless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Failing Words | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...into oodles of "scrummy" jams while defending the honor bright of Grangewood, "the jolliest school in England." As it happens, Denise Deegan's Daisy Pulls It Off is neither a revival nor a musical (though it boasts a catchy school song by one "Beryl Waddle-Browne," an anagram for the show's producer, Andrew Lloyd Webber). It is a sparkling, spanking-new parody of the Brazil novels that manages to be at once knowing and wide-eyed. The entire cast is darling-one wants to adopt the lot of them-led by Alexandra Mathie as Daisy, the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Looking for the Real Thing | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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