Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following the death of President Kennedy, political humor all but ceased to be a genre of show business, and long after candidates were back on the stump and fustian had returned to the air, comedians were still relatively silent. Mort Sahl was practically the third nominee in 1960 (TIME Cover, Aug. 15, 1960), but last spring and summer neither he nor any other comic made a significant bid for new stature in the field. Yet now that the actual campaign has begun, the nation's comedians have felt the call to duty, and they seem to be ready...
...year-old commercial artist from Paris, who is Bud's most devoted fan and fulltime guardian angel. Poudras lives with Powell, doles out his food and money, protectively escorts him everywhere to keep him on the straight and narrow. "People say Bud is crazy or lost or silent." says Poudras, "but he is really in a state of grace." Powell still spends most evenings sitting quietly alone, smiling to himself, wrapped in a cocoon of benign silence. Yet to anyone who has seen him since he fled to Europe, he seems to have undergone a miracle cure. On good...
Look, Y'AII!" Only once, during a relaxed and silent voyage in a 27-foot rubber raft down the twisting Snake River, was Lady Bird able to push away all reminders of wheelhorse politics and White House pressures. Wyoming's magnificent Teton Mountains loomed over the river, and when she caught her first glimpse of the peaks, Lady Bird cried: "Look, y'all, just look!" Idling along at 7 m.p.h., she spotted a formation of Canadian geese. "Hey! Say, what are they?" she exclaimed. "Aren't they gorgeous, strung out across the sky?" Then she dipped...
...reasonable." While eager to talk about the book, they kept silent in public. "My ideas seemed to provoke a sort of fear." Soon after the book went on sale, the publisher began sending Hermand big brown envelopes containing letters from readers. "At the peak, I received a hundred in one week. Who wrote most? Country priests-those men who live the loneliest of lonely lives. They understood my book; they encouraged me." Then, with an almost apologetic smile. Hermand opened a briefcase and took out a piece of paper, his official release from holy vows. "I am completely free," said...
...Three thousand to four thousand Catholic priests [July 24] underwent their "Golgotha" in Nazi Europe during the years 1939 to 1945. They became victims of Nazi persecution for their silent or outspoken resistance against the Third Reich. The martyrdom of these priests, who sacrificed their lives for their faith in the service of the church, is the only valid answer to the accusations of indifference of the Catholic Church toward the Nazi regime...