Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right or wrong" sounds very hollow in view of the American war atrocities at My Lai. The innocent, helpless civilians so brutally murdered there are another testimony to the fact that "liberty and justice for all" exist only if one happens to be American, wealthy and white. The "great silent majority" must work together morally for those values and ideals that were once held in such high esteem...
...TIME'S readers have heard about patriotism, battered children, truth, tradition, poverty, blindness, language and protest. The agencies report that the response has been abundant and heartwarming. Leo Burnett Co. Inc.'s ad on environment and pollution resulted in requests for 30,000 reprints. After urging the silent citizen to speak out, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample Inc. received a flood of congratulations, including one note allowing that "maybe Madison Avenue isn't all bad after all." The ad that has so far drawn the most active response was by Young & Rubicam (Oct. 24), which urged citizens to help...
Many custard pies have been thrown in the face of the silent-movie business, but few as sour as The Comic. If its advertisements are to be believed, the movie is simply a fond lampoon of Hollywood's pride-and-pratfall epoch. As the film unreels, it becomes in fact a furious editorial about a business that treats its veterans like overexposed celluloid...
...record out, a book of poetry due out in January and three offers to star in situation comedies. Alan Sues, who presides as Uncle Al ("the kiddies' pal") and the sports announcer who minces his words, has a book forthcoming and has written a movie ("A silent movie -it's great"). Ruth Buzzi, the hair-nettled nemesis of Arte Johnson's Dirty Old Man, went to Europe to tape a guest appearance on the John Davidson Show, ended up doing six, with Davidson trying to sign her on as a regular. Last month she did a pilot...
...incipient mood of fascism has arrived in the Ivy League. That day was so different from the gentleness of the multitudes of persons who attended the Moratorium in Washington on November 15 as to leave no doubt that those Americans who back the Administration's policies are far from "silent...