Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because Malcolm was frank to both whites and Negroes, the blues sung in the ghettoes tonight and for some time to come will be sung for us all. They will be sung for whites, because they must inevitably face the demands, style of life, and vengeance of the silent, "mean" Negroes who have been ignored or dismissed even by the middle-class of their own race. But the blues will be sung by Negroes because they recognize that Malcolm was murdered because he violated a code...
...Yale administration, usually silent in such situations, stated that the decision "was made with the greatest possible care and motivated only by the desire to sever Yale and its students...
...elaborations. Dialogue labels characters "good" or "bad" rather than engaging our interest in them. Furthermore, montage expands the time span of crucial events instead of condensing it. Eisenstein relies on the "rhythm" of the cutting and the motion within the Odessa Steppes scene to keep things exciting; but the silent tumult, the stationary camera, and the formality of description strain a modern audience's attention...
...Conscience Vote. This strategy badly backfired as "the Negroes of America waited in long, silent lines on Nov. 3 to register one of the greatest protest votes ever recorded." It also led to the loss of the "conscience vote of many Northern white Republicans who were repelled...
...Ohio Gang, he shows how well he can perform without the aid of verbal asides. There his figures act out a silent drama: a two-faced lowlife extends his hands to a sensuous nude as if she were a manicurist, while a wet nurse in open brassiere wraps a ribbon through the girl's hair. Harsh, disjointed architecture unsettles the scene. It is no longer important that Kitaj has combined figures from German and French anatomical discourses with an English pram. For him, this painting conjures up his native state and the curious syndrome in American literature?...