Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aboard Sunay's presidential yacht and visited Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), which was, until Sultan Mohammed the Conqueror proclaimed it a mosque in 1453, one of Christendom's largest churches. "It's beautiful," murmured the Pontiff, who startled his hosts by kneeling for a moment of silent prayer in what is now a state museum-and by law out of bounds for worship by any faith...
...like a bargain-basement shopper, he created a jazzy ballet for the Paris Opera, directed, produced or starred in six movies. On TV, he waltzed with Julie Andrews ("He made me feel as if I really could dance"), mugged with Danny Kaye, hosted the Hollywood Palace, narrated documentaries on silent movies and baseball, and starred in four one-hour specials and his own series, Going My Way. This year he was awarded an Emmy for the best children's program, Jack and the Beanstalk, in which he danced with animated characters, a technique he helped pioneer in Anchors Aweigh...
What ever happened to those two old chairs-one a Victorian rocker, one a stuffed armchair-that belonged to Glassboro State College President Dr. Thomas Robinson, 62, and were made famous by being sat upon by Lyndon Johnson and Aleksei Kosygin during the Glassboro summit conference? Robinson stood silent on the momentous matter, but the office of New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes disclosed that they had been shipped to Washington, along with an equally historic end table, as a gift for L.B.J. What then? "It's all a great big fat puzzle to me," said a Smithsonian...
...When Stokely Carmichael screams about negatives," says Houston Forward Times Publisher Julius Carter, "we don't bite our tongues and remain silent. We emphasize the positive. We aim our criticism at the Negro community, and this is why Carmichael calls us the 'Backward Times.' We do this because we know that not only must the white community change, but we have to change also...
...solemnly, by some literary types, including Mary McCarthy and Norman Mailer. Actually, Burroughs' work adds up to the world's pluperfect put-on. The publisher's blurb on the dust jacket attempts to legitimize his latest effusion thus: "Through winds of time, in strange beds, past silent obsidian temples, William Burroughs once again shuttles us back and forth between lunar worlds and the wired electric maze of the city. He presents us with a universe threatened with complete control of communications by the Nova...