Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to commend Tommie Smith and John Carlos for their actions of silent protest during the Olympic ceremonies [Oct. 25]. Black Americans are treated first as blacks, secondly as Americans in this country. The allegiance of these black athletes first to their people, and secondly to America is understandable and constructive. Their willingness to participate in the games shows their loyalty to their country; their actions of protest show their loyalty to the underprivileged of our nation. It is concern like theirs, and the courage and conviction to express their protest in the face of condemnation by the Establishment...
...theme of democratic government for his country. And his hopes, as outlined in the book, are that a few, then hundreds and eventually thousands of Spaniards will follow in his footsteps. Eventually, so his vision goes, the streets of Spain will be jammed each Sunday by the encartelados bearing silent but effective witness to the dream of change. Initially, just as his book predicts, the public reaction in Madrid was sympathetic but skeptical. "It might work elsewhere," a student said, "but it's like a fly running into a stone wall here." Indeed, Arias was quickly indicted...
Borrowing from several "dry" image-forming processes, the machine operates at a rate of one copy per minute, using specially treated paper. The company has so far been silent on the product's price, but concedes that it will run somewhat higher than the cost of black-and-white copiers. Even so, color copying should catch on for duplicating a wide variety of material, including color-coded organizational charts, splashy advertising layouts and blueprints that actually turn out blue...
...lover; he is rescued by the heroine in dramatic circumstances and fondly described as "her miracle, the storm murderer." In Moderate Cantabile, he is a French workman, again mysteriously connected with a recent murder, again with a sinister power over the heroine, who is frequently disturbed by "the silent agony of her loins." In L'Amante Anglaise, he turns up as the woodcutter Alfonso-an Italian this time-who sel dom speaks, lives alone in a hut in the forest, and is thought to know more about the murder than he will admit...
...hope rather than of death. One is conscious of light. Light is what we come from; we are born out of light. Light is the maker of all things, of all presences." Furthermore, he feels, the monument "is not accusing. One Pier-the chapel-speaks; the other six are silent...