Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through all this, Saxon remained untypically silent, though he did write the Federal Reserve denying that his men had withheld any reports that "it requested." But the revelations of friction between the Comptroller, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, all of which now divide the task of bank regulation, produced strong demands for some sort of reform. In a San Francisco speech, James L. Robertson, one of the Federal Reserve's seven governors, declared that today's "tangle of overlapping responsibilities, conflicting philosophies and procedural cross-purposes cannot be tolerated much longer." Merely "knocking heads...
...through the white night mourning his loss at every window. Everything is right with The Overcoat, except that its literal old-fashioned excellence may seem so familiar that moviegoers will mistake it for a revival. Earlier film versions of Gogol's story include The Last Laugh, a German silent classic starring Emil Jannings, and The Bespoke Overcoat, British Director Jack Clayton's Oscar-winning short of 1956. It is rewarding, apparently, to remake a durable Overcoat...
...former inhabit the relatively wealthy Selma suburb where Mayor Joseph Smitherson lives. His neighbors lined the curbs last Friday as 300 silent demonstrators were arrested for picketing Smitherson's home. The onlookers were well-dressed. They didn't taunt the demonstrators and, knowing I was a reporter, tried to reason with...
...march turned a corner and passed a local hospital. Two white-coated men stood silent, each with a foot resting manfully on an iron railing. "You one of 'em?" they at one asked. "What do you think of the march?" I asked. "Bunch of shabby Communists," he said. "Look at them white men out there. Look at 'em. Why would any nigger associate with them?" The thin one nodded. "We gonna find out who's jumpin' up then niggers if it takes all year," he said, "and we gonna kill...
...Holy Discontent." The new student mood takes many forms, but the great common lever back of it is civil rights; by combining idealism, emotional appeal, techniques, and proof that students can act effectively, this cause has lifted students out of their silent-generation apathy of the late '50s. Students from Yale, Harvard and Princeton were well represented at Selma last week; Mario Savio, the original free-speech leader at Berkeley, showed up too. And a healthy thing it is, insists St. John's Sociology Professor William Osborne: "This generation of students has what other generations have lacked...