Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moscow did not shout back last week; but it could not long remain silent, lest Khrushchev appear to be the "coward" that Mao now called him. Now that the Chinese Reds have nailed their theses tothe Kremlin wall, some men in Moscow would be thinking of excommunication. Stalin's posthumous excommunication took only three years to accomplish; and already the Sino-Soviet quarrel has raged for longer than that...
Most present day productions lack the quality of the silent films, Miss Gish believes, because the enormous costs have destroyed the strong community feelings that existed among the people who made old-time movies. In the '20's, actors and crewmen could always make suggestions to directors, and often these suggestions were used. "Lillian and I made our own costumes for Orphans, and Griffith or Billy Bitzer [Griffith's favorite cameraman] would always listen to our ideas." With today's high-budget films, each day of shooting costs upwards of $5000. There is not time to have such consultations...
Whether the girl is noisily career minded or a silent academic recluse, she is likely to have a certain chocolate attitude toward college. To her, the experience of Harvard-Radcliffe is most important for "the infinite opportunities it offers." She sees college primarily as a set of doors to be utilized, rather than a self-sufficient milieu. And so she chooses to compliment another girl by giving her some utilitarian and unfeminine attribute: like "brilliant," "down to earth," "conscious," "alive," or "great" and the like...
...adds the and short i in such sentences as "The moon looks as if it is an igloo." Using the principle of adding new sounds rather than new words, three subsequent Wenkart primers tackle u as in fun, o as in rock and e as in desk, plus the silent e that gives vowels a long sound as in pipe and cave...
Died. Maria Hacker Melchior, 59, petite wife of burly Wagnerian Meistertenor Lauritz Melchior; in Los Angeles. A Bavarian silent screen star, Maria Hacker was making a parachute jump for a film when a gust of wind blew her off course and into a garden where she landed directly in front of the startled Melchior. A few months later in May of 1925, she gave up her career to become his devoted Kleinchen (Little...