Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silent Poles...
POLITICAL debate has not always steamed the windows and bored the ascetes of college dining halls. In fact, the tab collar set of the '50's were just so un-radical they were dubbed "The Silent Generation." Growing up under McCarthyism, they had an instinctive fear of speaking out against the status quo. The newness of the hydrogen bomb and the strength of the Communist monolith validated the Cold War with an incredible rationality...
...about the same time SDS was born. It evolved from an extreme left-wing group which managed to survive the silent '50's, the League for Industrial Democracy. The Student Department of the League was a group of about 100 kids whose parents were veterans of the Old Left. In 1959 they asserted their independence and named themselves Students for a Democratic Society. For the next three years SDS consisted of 150 to 300 student activists from traditionally radical campuses like Swarthmore, Oberlin, and the University of Michigan. It was a small coterie of personal friends attempting to create...
...Hardy canon is filled with coincidences, fateful encounters and cataclysmic sexual passions, which lash the participants with an implacable frenzy. Of his 14 novels, Far from the Madding Crowd, with its relatively happy ending, is probably the most adaptable to film-and, indeed, it went through two silent treatments. In this version, Screenwriter Frederic Raphael has managed to preserve the book's broad vision while clarifying its bucolic speech. His most valuable ally is Director John Schlesinger (Darling), who displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations, alternating his stars with...
...those who won't fight with him. "The ACLU copped out on me. James Hamilton, of their staff, assured me that they would provide for my defense, then he told me the executive committee had reservations. They finally said they would take my case only if I remained silent and didn't break the remained silent and didn't break the law all the while appeals were going on. I couldn't agree to do it though; the public must be educated during my trial, and I can't compromise my principles...