Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jason, Yul Brynner still looks like the inscrutable East, despite a head of jet black hair. He is neither malevolent nor disturbed, merely silent, and with him more than anyone else, one feels the huge disparity between the character in the novel and in the movie. Margaret Leighton's Caddy leans a little too markedly toward Blanche du Bois, but she is nevertheless extremely poignant, presenting a more complete, if simpler personality...
...Prime Minister Nehru has repeatedly scoffed at exaggerated reports of Tibetan resistance. Last week the Indian consulate, lying between the Potala and Red headquarters, radioed New Delhi that there was "fighting in the immediate vicinity of the consulate. The situation is tense and rising." Then the radio fell silent. At Gyangtse, a large trading center 100 miles southwest of Lhasa, the citizens attacked the Red Chinese garrison. From Phongdo, the force of Khambas and fighting monks pushed toward the capital. At week's end the Communist-run Lhasa radio failed to come on the air with its noonday newscast...
Novelist Wister established the basic form of the modern sagebrush saga: the strong, silent, shy and virtuous hero; the hard-drinking, materialistic villain; the pretty, intelligent schoolteacher-heroine; the cattle politics; the slow drawl, the fast draw; the long, wary walk down Main Street to a blazing finish. And Zane Grey, a cactus-happy New York dentist who wrote 54 western novels that sold more than 25 million copies, started the mass exploitation of the Wister formula that soon turned the western story into a beltline business. Only since World War II have the cliches been rescued by a serious...
...been little pressure from college students to change a system that seems, to them, unimaginative, unfair, and somewhat hypocritical. Assuming that students constitute a group most personally interested in draft legislation, the critics wonder whether lack of information, lack of patriotism, or a sense of fatalism has caused the silent acquiescence with which colleges have greeted the extension...
...listener. "Close the schools and get going!" Delegate Burns hollered the same news into his phone, and instantly the palace in Honolulu was rocking with cheers. The throng swelled with a lusty singing of the Hawaiian anthem, Hawaii Ponoi, and the Star-Spangled Banner, and then fell silent in prayer. ("I'm a grown man," blubbered Quinn's administrative assistant, Bob Ellis, happily. "Why am I crying...