Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCrary ran Goldfine through a voice test of a statement prepared for radio and television. Then reporters tried to ask questions. "Wait a minute," roared Lawyer Sam Sears, an unlit cigarette dangling as always from a corner of his mouth. "Don't talk. Not a word." Goldfine stood silent, looking embarrassed. A reporter got scolded by Sears for insisting on questions. Snapped the reporter: "I'll say what I damn please." Then Goldfine read his statement for the actual filming (Tex McCrary had neglected to remove an empty highball glass and a used Old-Fashioned from the table...
Conservative Catholics frowned; rank and file Protestants, reluctant to attract attention, kept silent; wealthy Jews retreated. But Father Cucchetti, flanked by Rabbi Schlesinger and Methodist Minister Adam Sosa, did not lose zeal. "The three musketeers," as supporters tagged them, worked on their congregations. The rabbi persuaded two of his richest members to finance the movement; the Protestant pastor got backing from the U.S. National Conference of Christians and Jews; the priest managed to keep stodgy superiors from getting involved...
Inside Hungary, they have been silent ever since. Some were done to death. On the Soviet execution list (TIME, June 30), alongside Imre Nagy, stood the name of Miklos Gimes, ex-Stalinist journalist who became one of Hungary's leading anti-Reds. Countless others are in prison, notably Hungary's top novelist, Tibor Dery, 64; his latest book, Niki, the Story of a Dog, which is really a quiet indictment of the police state, will be published in the U.S. this fall. What has irked the puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent...
...voices that speak for the silent are some 200 Hungarian writers who streamed over the border to exile and freedom; they are currently busy enough to suggest a minor cultural renaissance. In London no fewer than a dozen books on this year's publishing lists are by Hungarians (the most promising: a satire titled How to Be a Communist in 12 Lessons...
...picture clear. The Emperor's horse fell ("A Roman would turn back," someone said); a gigantic thunderstorm destroyed, among other things, 10,000 horses. Worst of all, there were no Russians to defeat. Ségur describes in familiar scenes how the Grande Armée advanced into silent wastes; the aristocrats burned their houses and took their serfs with them to the East. Napoleon snapped: "Do you think I have come all this way just to conquer these huts?" The Russians were inspired-not by liberty-but by what was literally a holy horror of the French; they...