Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rehabilitation of German capitalists. Kollwitz' art is nothing if not truthful about these horrors. Quick flesh but thinly veils the bony deathsheads of her starving men and women. Death, indeed, dominates the work of Kollwitz now being exhibited at the Germanic Museum. Not Death as in the silent senseless repose of the dead, but Death hanging over slowly departing life; not Death which comes suddenly, mercifully to the well-born for whom it is the apoplectic end of surfeit, but Death which racks life from the poor with retching hunger, foul disease, the constant ache of physical exhaustion. Death...
This picture, formerly a silent film, has been rephotographed with sound with excellent results. The picture includes many out-of-door scenes, music, and the elocution of the actors is unusually clear...
Julian Green's "Invisible prose" as a categorical imperative is a delusion: the most ornate style conceivable might be as perfect and "invisible" a projection of the narrative fact as a stripped style. But considering the atmosphere which contemporary writers have to re-create or be silent, it is probably the best available medium. For her mastery of it Mrs. Parker ought to be remembered with Ring Lardner. It is true that absolute objectivity, for all but the greatest writers, is an impossible attitude to maintain, and Mrs. Parker does not always maintain it. But by the time the reader...
...frontier by undersecretaries of the Soviet Foreign Office who pointed out that so much honor had never been done by the Soviet Government to a foreign diplomat before. Banqueted on the spot in the frontier railway station, Guest Bullitt and his Red hosts discreetly clinked glasses in a "silent toast," then sped in a private car to Moscow (350 miles...
Mistake No. 2 came two years later. Returning from Oregon where he had coached football, he invested his new savings in a silent toilet-flusher. The flusher turned out to be noisy...