Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RACHEL, RACHEL. Actor Paul Newman makes his debut as director in a quiet tale of a frustrated schoolteacher just entering middle age. His wife. Actress Joanne Woodward, gives the film an added stature with her achingly real portrayal of the heroine...
...pithy putdown remains the most effective way to silence a heckler-provided, of course, he is reasonably civilized and relatively quiet. A classic was the riposte by John Wilkes, an 18th century libertine and libertarian, who heard the Earl of Sandwich roar at him in Commons: "I am convinced, Mr. Wilkes, that you will die either of a pox or on the gallows." Wilkes parried: "That, my lord, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your principles." Today, Prime Minister Harold Wilson can also hold his own. When a heckler shouted "Rub bish!" during a 1966 election rally, Wilson...
...duty airline stewardesses, did their best to drown out the dissidents with chants of "We want Nixon!" Republicans also hired beefy ex-footballers to mingle with outdoor crowds. They stood next to protesters and told them to put down placards, claiming they could not see, or to be quiet, contending that they could not hear the speaker...
Some U.S. politicians have discovered that a better way is to let hecklers hang themselves with their own words. When Robert Kennedy visited Tokyo's Waseda University in 1962, he made a gallant attempt to quiet an anti-American mob by inviting the noisiest of the hecklers to share the microphone. Edmund Muskie, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, used the same tactic this year with more success. And at a rally last week, Nixon made the best of a sticky situation by giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing...
...their noisy speeches, they could not persuade the spectators to turn against the police. As a benevolent Fink looked on, the rally soon fizzled out. Even when 20% of Fink's men called in sick during New York's police slowdown, East Village dissidents remained quiet-though the yippies gleefully passed out flyers thanking the cops for "a welcome example of disruption...