Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financiers, one a millowner. Deftly combining rebellion with business-as-usual, each earns more than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes and offices. Wrote TIME'S Reporter Sam Halper after sitting in on one such meeting last week: "Silent servants opened the doors, poured the drinks and arranged the foam-cushioned armchairs in a neat plotters' circle. The only proletarians were the help...
...developed such playwrights as Paddy Chayefsky and Horton Foote, and put on Television Playhouse, Producer's Showcase and Mr. Peepers: "Plans and ideas that I have submitted have either been ignored or have drawn no interest. On the other hand, I have been given no assignment. A silent telephone on your desk is a terrible thing." In Manhattan, after seven successful years in daily morning TV, CBS's Garry Moore announced that he would end the daytime show next fall. Said Moore, who plans to keep going in I've Got a Secret and to explore other...
...didn't he go? The question can best be answered by the man himself. At Paris, Stevenson could not have spoken for himself without appearing to stab the American delegation in the back. He could not have kept silent without implying tacit assent and wordless blessing to policies he did not conceive and did not believe in. At the present time, Stevenson is a political dead man. While more ambitious Democrats pursue more prudent courses, he may speak his mind on American foreign policy. To have gone to Europe would have compromised this new role as a responsible critic...
Admittedly, the English Department and its tutors are none of my business: but the lady is, and I hate seeing her in such a lamentable position. Tricked in her adverbs, she is fast becoming silent and inarticulate. Joseph C. Walker...
...sing very well. He is quite effective as a night-club singer who substitutes his conquests over women for a financially prosperous existence. When Sinatra tells an unwilling chorus girl, "If you knew what you were throwing away, you'd cut your throat," hundreds of middle-age matrons nod silent agreement...