Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost everything, that is. For despite the promise, the experts remain oddly silent, producing no answers. The activity goes on but behind the scenes. The ideas travel in scholarly channels, unintelligble to layman and politician alike...
...leaders and big businessmen belatedly joined the battle. Scattered local programs began to close for lack of appropriations at the same time, and Congressmen who had been cool suddenly realized what the war on poverty meant back home. What Arizona Democrat Morris Udall called OEO's "hidden and silent" support started to surface...
...major reason for the lukewarm quality of Jewish-Christian relations was last spring's Arab-Israeli war. Jewish leaders have charged that the majority of Christian churchmen either remained silent, or failed to protest strongly when Arab nations threatened to annihilate Israel. The Synagogue Council of America, chief coordinating body of U.S. Judaism, scored "the tolerance of some Western opinion toward these Arab threats of genocide." Nonetheless, at last week's meetings of the United Synagogue in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., and the U.A.H.C. in Montreal, the consensus was that current tension should be an in centive to dialogue...
...Chinese did not come at all, but they were not silent for the occasion. The New China News Agency denounced the Soviet leaders as "something filthy and contemptible-like a dog's dirt," and Defense Minister Lin Piao accused them of bringing about "an all-round capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union." Then, even as glasses clinked in the Kremlin, both the Chinese and the Albanians called upon the Russians to overthrow the "renegade revisionist clique" in Moscow. With comrades such as these, the Soviet leaders were probably grateful when a cordial message arrived from Lyndon Johnson, offering "heartfelt...
...believes that if Christianity is to mean anything to man today, it must strive to narrow the gulf between the "silent suffering" in underdeveloped lands and the affluence of "Technocratic, sophisticated civilization." He expressed the hope that "those who may not understand my words may be touched by my decision." Besides, he quipped, "I don't think that being a cardinal is a hindrance to doing good...