Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emerging from an after-midnight coffee session last week at Lindy's, his favorite spot, dapper little (5 ft. 4 in.) New York Labor Columnist Victor Riesel turned off Broadway and down silent 51st Street. By habit he had taken off his glasses. Half a block from Broadway, a young man stepped from the building shadows and threw a bottle of searing, concentrated sulphuric acid into Riesel's face. The columnist clutched at his burn ing eyes, gasping, "My gosh, my gosh!" The young man walked away and was swallowed up by the night and the city...
...Unfit. For months before the meeting, a special eight-man committee had been examining the records of various campuses and had finally drawn up a statement reaffirming the A.A.U.P.'s stand on the question: Should a teacher be fired if he has pleaded the Fifth Amendment or remained silent while under investigation for Communist ties or sympathies? Its main conclusion: the only way a school can justly fire a teacher is to prove that he is unfit to teach because of "incompetence, lack of scholarly objectivity or integrity, serious misuse of the classroom or of academic prestige, gross personal...
...brilliant shift of its dialectic, the Poet's Theatre has sided with comprehensibility this month, and come up with a rousing, if not always consistent, spoof of early and silent Hollywood. Much of poet John Ashbery's original play is quite funny...
...risk Ashbery ran in conceiving The Compromise was that he would not be able to sustain with his dialogue a potentially tiresome theme: recollection of the ridiculous over-acting and aphorisms of the first silent movies. Despite a few lapses in the second act, he maintains the necessary easy facetiousness which gives him a chance fully to explore the ludicrous proportions of each melodramatic character. When he falters, it is generally when the action needs spiking with a few irrelevant laughs, which he gets by contemporary cynical asides to the audience. They rather destroy the continuing tone of the play...
...Legionnaires shouted: "Back to Palestine!" "It was the first time in the history of the Hashemite family that one of them stood up to the British," said a former Hussein critic. Only some of the old Bedouins, who had called Glubb Pasha their "little father," were silent...