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Finally, as a hush fell over the hall, Bobby spoke slowly, softly, thanked the assembled Democrats for "the encouragement, the strength that you gave him after he was elected President of the United States." Added Bobby: "When I think of President Kennedy, I think of what Shakespeare said in Romeo and Juliet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Magic of Memory | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

There were fleeting moments on a higher plane. Operatic Soprano Anna Moffo, aglitter in gold, thrilled with a selection from La Traviata. Folk Singer Joan Baez, musically effective if a bit maudlin, dedicated All My Trials and its plea, "Hush, little baby, don't you cry," to Jacqueline Kennedy. The show crashed to a close as a huge red heart emblazoned U.S.A. LOVES L.B.J. drifted from the ceiling and the crowd chorused an Allan Sherman parody to the tune Once in Love with Amy. Sample lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Roller Coaster | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...last, Elizabeth Rosamond Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher took on the Burton. After 24 months as the world's most famous lovers, the seemingly (or unseemlily) inseparable couple made it legal in Montreal at a Unitarian ceremony attended only by eleven of their dearest employees. It was a hush-hush, rush-rush affair, for which they secretly flew up from Toronto-where Dick is doing Hamlet-in a chartered Viscount. By 2:20 that afternoon, here came the bride, all dressed in yellow chiffon, topped by a nuptial hairdo that featured a 34-in., hyacinth-entwined coil of hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 27, 1964 | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...solace in Bergman-style pseudo religion, as in Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light. Instead, Bergman now seems to suggest that man must stand alone, without the crutch of a religious vocabulary. It is unfortunate that neither this encouraging thematic advance nor Bergman's filmic mastery can hush the grating content which disrupts The Silence...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The Silence | 3/17/1964 | See Source »

There's a song of a bird in a tree,- A song that is fresh, gay, and free, The voice of a last summer's thrush, Shaking out his trills-hush! hush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unhappy Idyl | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

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