Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About "Reformers in Crisis" [May 20]: I call your attention to the section of New York's Family Court Act of 1962 dealing with juvenile delinquency. Under it, proceedings are deemed civil, but the juvenile has the right to counsel. He may remain silent throughout the proceedings, and the petition against him must be proven by a preponderance of the evidence. The occasions under which detention may be ordered are defined and limited. It cannot be said of juvenile-court proceedings in the state of New York that they are operating "farther and farther outside the Constitution." Formal proceedings...
...decades of war, the Vietnamese have learned resilience. No sooner had the guns fallen silent in Danang than the rubble in the streets was removed. Shutters and boards that had been hastily nailed to windows were removed. Shops that had been closed for eight days opened up; police replaced soldiers at busy intersections. Miraculously, people reappeared: riding bicycles and peddling cycles, passing the time of day at sidewalk kiosks, shopping, visiting-a city alive again and glad...
Hochhuth, basing his play on a hit-or-miss reading of history, argued that Pius stayed silent because he wanted Germany preserved as a bulwark against the conquest of Europe by Russian Communism. Friedlander, an Israeli citizen whose parents died at Auschwitz and who is now associate professor at Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies, comes to much the same conclusion...
JUDEX. A sophisticated French tribute to period pop art, based on the serialized adventures of a half-forgotten superhero who liked to vanquish villains and save maidens in the silent-screen...
...same kind of enthusiasm which could be generated by playing up the fact that Freedom National has no investments in South Africa, unlike most of the larger New York banks. Fear of their white depositor's antagonistic reaction to publicity of this fact has kept the bank's directors silent...