Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From all over the Union white women, most of them middle-aged housewives, all wearing over-the-shoulder black sashes, converged on Cape Town last week and paraded silently down Cape Town's main street. Then they took stations at five-yard intervals in front of Parliament and began a 48-hour vigil of silent protest, ignoring rotten vegetables hurled by young hoodlums. As leather-lunged Prime Minister Johannes Strydom convened Parliament in joint session in the final act of his long campaign to write white supremacy into the law of his tragically divided land, the silent ladies, lined...
Remembrance of Things Past is just what its title suggests-a backward search through sessions of sweet, silent thought into the memories of a lifetime. Like Joyce's Ulysses, it came into being when notions regarding the womb, the trauma, the unconscious were casting something like a dream-spell upon rational thinkers. Like Ulysses in this respect. Remembrance reads like a never-ending dream. But just as Ulysses manages also to portray the life and times of Joyce's Dublin, so Remembrance seems to many the greatest portrayal ever made of Proust's turn-of-the-century...
University officials remained silent yesterday on whether the Air Force ROTC would remain here after its scheduled cancellation in July 1957, while a reliable source indicated that the decision "may come in a week, or not until the unit here is scheduled to cease operation...
From the airport, Mollet's route lay through the French part of the city. It was grimly silent. Shops were closed, balconies draped with black "for mourning"; French men and women stonily turned their backs as his car swept by. A crowd was waiting for him at the war memorial in the city's center. At sight of the Premier, it broke into an angry roar. "Mollet to the lamppost!" rose the shout, and the crowd became...
Zanuck's departure from 20th Century-Fox, the studio he founded (with veteran Moviemaker Joseph M. Schenck) in 1933, stirred memories of his role in helping to guide Hollywood through adolescence. In the '20s at Warner Bros., Zanuck made so much money for the studio with his silent Rin-Tin-Tin series that Warner decided to shoot a barrel of profits on a daring experiment: The Jazz Singer (produced by Zanuck), which starred Al Jolson and ended silent films with a spoken line ("You ain't heard nothing yet, folks!"). Always keen to sense a popular trend...