Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expression with the expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first time around -- but it's entirely possible to slide through this whole magazine without being moved or interested enough by anything to want to understand it. If an Advocate writer stands silent on a peak in Darien, he usually stands there alone, while the public sticks to Chem 20 in the foothills far below...
...Silent Set. When the Fritz sisters dropped out of sight, the police figured they were runaways also, even got reports they were in Mexico. Not until Bruns told his gruesome story did they suspect foul play. As for Schmid, since his arrest he has, for once, had nothing...
...then, a silent avalanche of night had engulfed most of the Northeast. Cascading west, south and east from the Niagara Falls region, the electronic eclipse swept over an area only slightly smaller than Great Britain: 80,000 sq. mi., embracing parts of eight U.S. states and most of Canada's Ontario province. In 12 bewildering minutes?in less time than it would take an intercontinental missile to reach the U.S. from Russia?30 million people were plunged into blackness and bewilderment. And, in a society that has peered at the moon's hidden face and unlocked the secrets of matter...
...Americans served and shielded by machines at every turn, each silent switch and powerless push button was a taunt. Two of modern technology's paramount deities?the dynamo and the digital computer?had defected simultaneously. Yet Northeasterners wasted little time lamenting their betrayal by the machine. Instead, with a high sense of shared adventure, they set about the unfamiliar task of using legs and arms to help themselves and their fellow men. If in the process the 20th century American learned belatedly to mistrust the complex mechanics by which he lives, he also acquired new faith in his humanity...
Wayward Spirit. He was born in St. Louis in 1882 to German Jewish immigrant parents. As a freckled, gangling boy, he was unruly in school, argumentative at home, and neither his passive watchmaker father (whose nickname was "Silent" Swope) nor his bustling, matriarchal mother could ever really cope with him. His elder brother Gerard (later president of General Electric) took him in hand, tried to infuse a little discipline into this wayward spirit. Instead, Herbert strayed into journalism, then one of the more undisciplined professions, and eventually surfaced as a cub reporter for the New York Herald...