Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which are not entirely unbiased) that subscription television may destroy free television operation. In the final analysis, it would appear the charges here made [against pay TV] could have been made by the radio industry when television was made available for the home and by the producers of silent pictures when Al Jolson sang in The Jazz Singer. Invention and progress may not and should not be so restricted...
...eerie scene. The two rhinoceroses looked out over a courtyard bathed in that red-gray light of late afternoon; Biff stood alone staring intently at the large note in his hand; the crowd in front of the main door of the Biology Labs grew suddenly silent and waited for something to happen...
Although the planners beat the drums and man the mimeograph machines to announce their belief in human renewal, so far they have remained silent on the demands for educational equality proposed by the Kiernan commission, appointed by the State to investigate segregation in the Boston public schools. The only official voices to be heard have come from the Boston School Committee headed by Mrs. Louise Day Hicks who says, "We have in our midst a small band of racial agitators, non-native to Boston, and a few college radicals...who have joined in a conspiracy to tell the people...
...done better (in The Trojan Women, Zorba the Greek) and knows better. The play's plot and characters are assembled from the Kopit-Albee playmaking kit. Bump's grandfather is the peppery and frustrated duplicate of the grandmother in Edward Albee's The Sandbox. The silent father is a variation on Albee's laconic, spiritless father in The American Dream. Mother is the voracious woman of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, in fright wigs a la Tiny Alice. Lakme wears the little-girl dresses that the sex-hungry baby sitter wore...
...labored to produce Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, The Titan, and his autobiographical The "Genius." By 1916, Dreiser was the hero of the avant-garde and the pet peeve of the Nice Nellies, who denounced The "Genius" as literary sewage and got it banned by the censor. Crushed, Dreiser fell silent for ten years...