Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smiling but Silent. On opening night, however, the wondering quickly turned to wonder. Seated at the foot of the altar in the Gothic Saint-Pierre Church, Schneider, Serkin and Casals played Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat Major with a passion that made no concession to age. Casals' luminous tone filled the vast church like waves of sunlight, touching the life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked...
...rehearsing and answering the hundreds of letters from well-wishers. And on the evenings when he is not performing, he sits listening in an armchair in the vestry, caressing his cello, his blue eyes gazing into space, his bald head nodding, his left hand dancing on the fingerboard in silent accompaniment to the music that he says sinks into him with "the pleasant heaviness of gold...
...Miami last week, seven men charged with rape were released with out trial; in Los Angeles, a confessed murderer under sentence of death went free. In Cincinnati, a silent robbery suspect was let go - and promptly committed another crime...
...these troubling cases were direct results of the Supreme Court's sweeping decision in Miranda v. Arizona (TIME, June 24). Applying the Fifth Amendment guarantee against selfincrimination, the court ruled that every suspect must now be "warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, and that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning, if he so desires...
...difference between a moment of prayer in unicorn and a moment of silent prayer or meditation so momentous for public education, and so plainly in the advantage of the vocal ceremony, that the extraordinary machinery of a constitutional amendment should be set in motion to achieve this alternative...