Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...served under the general in Indo-China, came with him to Algiers for the April putsch. As police bundled them outside, one cop could not help identifying their catch to other residents in the hallway. When the concierge heard that M. Carriere was Raoul Salan, she fainted. Silent and deathly pale, Salan was taken with Ferrandi by helicopter to Reghai'a, French military headquarters 20 miles from town, where the S.A.O. chief huddled bleakly on a bench between two gendarmes. There he was spotted by an old comrade-in-arms, loyal Gaullist Gen eral Charles Ailleret, who was relieved...
...Pusey has kept similarly silent on other new projects. A hugely intricate system of divided committees lately agreed to charge him with central responsibility for determining what should be done with Latin American studies at Harvard. As with Gen Ed and the Visual Arts, factionalism and irresolution among the interested parties, and the significance of the program for the University's future, have made the President's role in forming policy a crucial one. Yet Mr. Pusey has said no more of this role than that "the recommendations of the committees would have to come to my desk;" he does...
...gruff, stylized vocal tones and, sometimes the abrupt, hyperdramatic gestures of Kabuki. When the two peasants climb mountains in a completely prone position, they recall the balletic exaggeration of Japan's ancestral theatre, as do the shrieks that serve the Princess for "normal" speech. Indeed, she must remain silent throughout the journey because her voice would "reveal her identity...
...actors enter. The Queen wears a beautiful and impassive gold mask, and she sits, motionless. A Vagabond enters and tells the King how he has loved the Queen, never seeing her, and how he has sung to men along the roads of her beauty. Looking upon the silent Queen, though, he finds that...
...this bothers either of them. She obviously loves him as much as she needs him. "Now she has all the best that is Italian," says Carlo frankly, "Neapolitan gaiety and artistic sense, and Milanese sense of proportion and balance, which she learned from me." For the rest, they are silent. "The one who loves very much," Sophia tells the endless strangers who ask for The Real Truth, "talks little about it." People say that Ponti serves as an image of the father she never had, but she treats him as if he were her own little boy. They...