Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power gallus snappers who would rather have their children go ignorant than have them educated in company with Negroes. On the other side are the cause pumpers who somehow always seem to end up at New York fund-raising rallies. Somewhere in between lies a substantial but generally silent group of moderates. Among these, few make their presence more manifest than the Atlanta Constitution's Cartoonist Clifford H. Baldowski, who draws under the name of "Baldy...
Harold Gross, president of a Teamsters Local in Miami and a convicted extortionist, kept silent on testimony of other witnesses that he charged thousands of dollars to assure labor peace at a New Jersey commercial printing firm which turns...
...numbers arranged in little squares. Or, tiring of that, he will put a frame around an opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the back of a blue collage, with the key sticking through the front. "The music box played Silent Night," he remarks. "I fixed it to go 'ping, ting, click' instead." Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target, messily painted in red, blue and yellow atop a layer of old newspapers pasted to canvas. Attached...
...score by Conductor Yuri Faier (he is almost blind, can see only the dancers' silhouettes), is unabashedly romantic, gently moving in its lyric flights, occasionally distracting when the onstage movements are too welded to its melodramatic moods. The acting style is sometimes reminiscent of Theda Bara and the silent films: the wildly staring eyes and clawing hands of grief, the shaking fists upraised in righteous anger. At one point, Romeo stands with roses in one hand and a human skull in the other, registering alternate hope and despair with the instantaneous reflexes of a Pavlovian...
...comedy. The high points may have been classic, the conventions legendary, the faces immortal, but even these excerpts show an astonishing puerility and lack of invention. The only nostalgic portion for the younger generation is the appearance of Will Rogers, who is able to bring wit even into the silent film...