Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called 'silent generation' is no longer silent. I feel an upsurge on college campuses everywhere. There is a searching. People are troubled by the problems in the world, and the're looking for the answers...
...Silent, Run Deep (Hecht, Hill, Lancaster; United Artists) runs noisy, runs shallow. But it gives the moviegoer who is in the market for thrills a fairly good run for his money. Based on the 1955 bestseller by Navy Captain Edward L. Beach (at that time President Eisenhower's Navy aide), the film gets under way as Commander Clark Gable, U.S.N.. loses his submarine in Japan's Bungo Strait. Desked in Honolulu, he strikes for another command and sails for revenge. But there is a hitch: the command that Gable gets had previously been ticketed to Lieut. Burt...
Having defied gravity and undertaken such theological speculation before (via his fictional trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength), Explorer Lewis quickly comes to the heart of space theology: If man is not unique, what of Christ's human incarnation and man's redemption through him? Suggests Lewis: redemption may be possible through other means than "birth at Bethlehem, the cross on Calvary and the empty tomb . . . To different diseases, or different patients sick with the same disease, the great Physician may have applied different remedies.'' Or else outer-world species might...
...section's "Wanted: Prestige" [Feb. 24] might have reported that [retiring] President Schmitz did not bar Dr. Oppenheimer from speaking at the University of Washington in 1955 or any other time. Indeed, Dr. Oppenheimer did appear at the university in 1956, a fact about which TIME was strangely silent...
...visitor: a fallen U.S. airman (Earl Holliman). The two-man play dared to turn almost entirely upon monologues by the American, yet managed effectively to sweep its characters over their language barrier from enmity to camaraderie. Though obliged to make few sounds other than some grunted Japanese, aging (68) Silent...