Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show, whatever that is. She has one of the most unpleasant and whiny voices I've ever heard on the stage; but that is probably an advantage for this role. Heaven help her if she ever tries to play another type of woman, though! Her best moments are silent ones, all the same, when she keeps rearranging the plants and flowers with an utterly unaesthetic eye, and when she does a ludicrous dance to Chopin's Prelude...
...VANDIVER FORCES BRING RACE-MIXING FARM TO GEORGIA." Vandiver is the front-running candidate for Governor and choice of anti-Griffin Democrats headed up by powerful U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge. Suddenly Attorney General Eugene Cook, until then an approvingly silent member of the commission board, threatened an investigation of T.V. Williams Jr. and all his works...
West Germany. For days Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government kept silent while Socialists scored the Anglo-American troop landings. Germans, with their own strong trade ties and commercial ambitions in the Arab Middle East, did not mind letting it be known that they were not involved. Adenauer, miffed at not being told in advance, was mollified when John Foster Dulles made a special trip to see him en route to a Baghdad Pact meeting...
...congressional leaders had left. In the President's office, amid the collection of empty chairs, Ike's aides, struck with the somberness that envelops decisions of moment, stood silent...
...Bois-whose work is represented in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art-bucked the march toward abstraction, wrote that "the vast majority of today's painters, like victims of battle trauma huddled in dark and silent rooms, shun the real life that flows around them. They seem almost to have become terror-stricken of it-proof, perhaps, of T. S. Eliot's gloomy prediction that the world will not end 'with a bang but a whimper...