Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockefeller, he talked of the need for unity. Unlike Rockefeller, he also talked of the need for potential candidates to make clear their positions on major issues-most especially on Viet Nam. This jab hit Rockefeller in the vitals. There are few subjects on which he has been more silent recently, and his reticence has prompted rumors that he has modified his prowar stand of two years...
Regular features of the services will be devotional and secular readings, silent meditation, and programs encouraging the audience's response...
ESTRANGING others by bizarre actions or silent withdrawal, the students became over-whelmingly lonely. Even those who continued to present a normal facade to friends felt increasingly isolated. Two of the Cliffies interviewed said they dated a lot. One said, "I went out so much that other girls were jealous of me. But they didn't know how lonely I was. Once I thought of myself lying asleep and I laughed. I thought, 'Poor girl, nobody cares about you and you're not even awake enough to care about yourself...
Moses, whose repertory already includes "silent solos" in which he flails the air without hitting his drums, is now working on "a more multidirectional pulse that suggests infinite rhythmic feelings, so that the listener chooses the bar lines. It's like Jackson Pollock's painting." And Swallow, the most venturesome composer of the group, wants to pursue such directions as those he charted in General Mojo Cuts Up, in which the players improvise over a five-minute mélange of taped music, then pile their instruments into another impressionistic fancy while the tape is repeating. "Jazz...
Even on your first trip to a skin flick parlor, what first strikes you is not the bare bosom on the screen, but the people in the audience. There are about fifty lean men, sitting bolt-upright and silent, and scattered evenly throughout the theatre. Un-written skin flick code says no one may sit within three seats of anyone else, even on crowded weekends...