Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite pleased and impressed with your May 26 article regarding the second generation in motion pictures. There are some third and fourth generations in the American theater. I fall into the category of the third. My grandfather, Frank Keenan, who came from the stage, was a big star in silent pictures ; I am sure that my father, Ed Wynn, needs no introduction, and I have been in pictures for the last 15 years...
Adam Clymer, class orator, termed the Class of 1958 the "overclassified generation," and denounced the current attempts at pigeon-holing today's young people as the beat generation, the silent generation, or the unsilent generation...
...years. His new slogan: "Hard work for a few years; happiness for a thousand." He predicted more than 7,100,000 tons of steel production this year, against 2,200,000 tons only four years ago. But in the fine print, not all was so rosy. He was significantly silent on last year's harvest and this year's crop prospects. He regretted "excessive wage increases" in 1956 but denied that that year had been one of "reckless advance." He admitted that a retrenchment had followed, but for those who weary of such economic jargon as saucering...
...This kind of international hypocrisy should be abhorrent to Christians, and in its presence the Church dare not keep silent . . . We Americans are in danger of rejecting the heritage which made us what we are. With penitence let us confess that as a people we are becoming less interested in righteousness than in national security and international superiority...
...Will. As his tortures grew more fierce, his courage and will to stay silent grew fiercer still. He was helped by the growing numbness to pain of a body already half dead. Eventually, the torturers flagged, and Alleg knew that he was winning: "I suddenly felt proud and happy not to have given way. I was convinced that I could still hold out . . . that I would not help them in their job of killing...