Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Obafemi Awolowo was holidaying in Britain. Eastern Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe better known as "Zik" to his enthusiastic followers, was something less than exuberant. ''Falls so far short of the yearnings," complained his newspaper, "that it does not deserve to be noised abroad. The drums ought to be silent. The cymbals should be hidden away...
...Inevitable disillusion further deepened his pessimism. Malraux, too, had a severe comeuppance in middle age when his Communist leanings proved to have been a flirtation with the devil. Thereafter, he turned from adventuring and novel writing to art criticism, became the most eloquent, arrogant, febrile, haunting writer in the silent world of art. His new Saturn: An Essay on Goya (Phaidon; $10) illuminates a dark genius with lightning flashes of insight...
...Those of us who believe that the monarchy can survive and play an even more beneficent part . . . are not content to remain silent while needless errors go uncorrected...
...power have found the germ of it in his approach to the music he conducts; like Toscanini, he tries to immerse his own personality in the personality he finds expressed in the score. The process is so absorbing that even at mealtimes he is likely to sit silent, sunk in mental rehearsal of selections from the file of music stored in his memory. He is largely self-taught. The son of a Munich insurance director, he studied piano privately, had only three months' instruction in conducting in 1942 at the Munich Hochschule für Musik before...
...Cheat). In his acting, he epitomized the wry, shoulder-shrugging French bon vivant, but bitterly offended countrymen by continuing to act and write under the Nazi occupation ("I didn't want Paris to die . . ."), was once (1948) kidnaped by former resistance fighters in Lyon, forced to stand at silent attention for one minute before a memorial to martyred war heroes...