Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Cabot Lodge, the odds-on favorite in Oregon, was still in Saigon, presiding over U.S. efforts to win the war there, consulting with visiting Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor, taking time for a dip in the pool at the Saigon Sports Club, and staying as silent as any Buddhist idol about his political plans...
...life more people have problems in their own lives than others realize. And what we have to have the courage to do is to face those problems honestly inside ourselves." In a speech at the University of Portland, he asked, "What do the absent advocate? Where do the silent stand?" He clambered to the top of a truck on a rainswept street to tell a knot of curious bystanders: "If you vote Friday, remember my name. It's Nelson Rockefeller. Thanks, folks." His tiny audience stood huddled and shivering. But Rocky's warmth and determination were coming through...
...crystal puts out from 200 to 400 bursts of ultrasound every second. The silent intervals give it time to pick up the echoes, which are then converted into electrical impulses and fed into an oscilloscope. More complex scanners can give the equivalent of a three-dimensional picture. On the oscilloscope screen, the ultrasound echoes make a picture that may look like Lord Cornwallis' breastworks at Yorktown. Additional circuitry can make the oscilloscope hold the picture long enough for the doctor to snap a photograph...
...especially perceptive. In the process he is Comforter, Prophet, and the Angel who trumpets in the day of judgment. As Comforter, he counsels the tragic nigger--the no-smiling Uncle Tom transfigured into a saint by wisdom, but still a brooding, sorrowful man-boy with lowered eyes and a silent presence--who, according to Baldwin's humanism, is holy even though defeated. This holiness can only be attained through suffering and endurance. As Prophet, Baldwin warns Negroes that to believe they are niggers is the beginning of their destruction which may not end in Holiness. As the Angel of Judgment...
More Art than Farce. An old silent movie flashes onto a screen. An unfaithful wife shoves her lover into a large armoire when her husband unexpectedly returns from a business trip. A second screen lights up. On it, Othello is about to strangle Desdemona, her cleavage akimbo. Screen 1: the wife shoves the armoire out of sight to hide it, but ends by shoving it right into Screen...