Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state, "If the silent center in the U.S. can find an effective voice, through the new Citizens Committee . . ." For "silent center" read "senior citizen" apropos of the ages of the founders: Dean Acheson, 74; Omar Bradley, 74; James F. Byrnes, 88; Lucius Clay, 70; James Bryant Conant, 74; Paul Douglas, 75; Dwight Eisenhower, 77; Harry Truman, 83, etc. EVERETT THIELE Baltimore
...What banner of rationality and what pretense of right justifies and permits such aimless waste? We must demand distinction between freedoms and their abuse. Clamorous dissenters, along with the silent majority of us, would do well to meditate upon the ominous words of the historian of Rome (Livy): "Then let him observe how when discipline wavered, morality first tottered and then began the headlong plunge, until it has reached the present stale of affairs when we can tolerate neither our vices nor their remedies." CARLOS M. BARANANO Detroit
...consequence of these processes of fragmentation and division in the life of reason is the destruction of human autonomy. The university is thickly populated by cynical or silent...
Died. Julien Duvivier, 71, French movie director; of an apparent heart attack; in Paris. A veteran of silent films, Duvivier first used a series of character-study vignettes in 1937's Carnet de Bal to illuminate the movie's main theme. Among his other remembrances: 1951's The Little World of Don Camillo, starring Fernandel...
...either to break them morally or to snare them into a faux pas that will lad them in a desert island. My friend had found an ingenious solution: he reads to his class the most outrageous speeches of Pattakos and the rest of the junta, thus exposing them to silent ridicule; any extra time is used to analyze the grammar and syntax of the speeches...