Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silent Spring, Carson...
...much alike: militarily erect, grey-haired six-footers, quietly groomed. They are also enemies. Since Dec. 8, when nine New York dailies fell silent, the two men have come together many times in many rooms, with nothing in common but an avowed purpose: to get the city's newspapers back into print. In this purpose, both have signally failed. They have nothing to say to each other beyond a few cold, perfunctorily polite words. In their stubborn refusal to start meaningful negotiations, it is almost as if Bertram Anthony Powers, president of New York Local 6 of the International...
...usually the case, it happens on the right side of the brain in a right-handed patient, his language skills are unimpaired. He can still write; he can reset his wrist watch. After a mild right-side stroke, the patient may have no paralysis, but only what neurologists call "silent impairment"-a vague depression, believed to result from a blunting of sensory awareness, and in judgment of spatial relations. He does not become overanxious. But he is likely to complain endlessly about his food or the hospital routine. And the dulling of his sensitivity may make him careless of toilet...
...Almost all of this exciting action takes place in the second half of the movie. The first half accomplishes what a silent movie would have done with the single title "Arabia!"--that is, it sets the scene, and sets the scene, and sets the scene. And not all the perfumes of Alec Guinness, who nattily impersonates the Arab Prince Feisal with obvious and engaging contempt for the whole business, can sweeten the arid piles of camel dung in which he is trapped. It is also good to see Claude Rains back in North Africa, still, as ever, the mysterious servant...
...although de Gaulle is silent, Belgium, in the person of Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, has run out of patience with Mr. Tshombe. In September, 1961, M. Spaak (then not in office) had hoped for the classic alternative of subduing the breezy Katangan chief by private means; now he grasps faintly at U Thant's tactful straws. The Belgian government's resolution must have been considerably fortified by Mr. Tshombe's talk of "scorched earth" and his attempts to blow up several key Union Miniere installations. Even what M. Spaak describes as his "preoccupation," meaning alarm, with the more confusing...