Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yalies of age to indulge must apply to the New Haven town clerk, accompanied by birth certificate and photograph, for a purchase license. The Harkness bells were silent...
...point continually arises that Kollwitz is, after all, an "Expressionist," a wielder of emotions who prefers impulsive, intuitive reactions to intellectualized or classic ones. No answer speaks more eloquently than the suffering "expressionist" figures of Rouault, whose silent anguish mirrors not only torment and martyrdom but that essential dignity of art defined by Malraux as "the voice of silence." The difference, again, is aesthetic, not literary. Kollwitz cries out against war; Rouault affirms the artistry war destroys. One is advocacy and the other...
...narrow choice of subject matter puzzles Morandi as much as anyone. "Perhaps," he says with a shrug, "the isolation in which I have found myself has led me to love solitary and silent things." Those qualities imbue his art. The timeless, table-top universe Morandi pictures may be as dry as the empty bottles that populate it, but it powerfully conveys-indeed, it creates-an atmosphere of isolation and profound quietude...
...weeks India's usually loquacious Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been uncommonly silent on his favorite subject: foreign affairs. In New Delhi a fortnight ago, where the All-India Congress Committee was meeting, Nehru managed to get through 2% full days of handshaking and speechifying without once mentioning foreign affairs. Last week, before the Lower House of India's Parliament, Nehru finally spoke on foreign affairs, but confined himself for the most part to a discussion of problems directly affecting India, e.g., Pakistan, Goa, Kashmir. On Hungary, which the 'Indian delegation will in effect ignore when...
...post-World War II generation-beat or beatific-has not found symbolic spokesmen with anywhere near the talents of Fitzgerald, Hemingway or Nathanael West. In this novel, talented Author Kerouac, 35, does not join that literary league, either, but at least he suggests that his generation is not silent. With his barbaric yawp of a book. Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean...