Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote these lines, but the perceptive will readily date them from the 1920s. They have that slightly posed air of gay gallantry and tender toughness that marked the era of "But Jesus we had fun." After four decades, its heroes and heroines look as comically self-conscious as silent-movie characters, trying to gather their rosebuds in vigorous deadpan. What comes through most clearly is the sentimentality lurking beneath. Hemingway, hard as nails on the outside but soft as a baby impala on the inside, was an archetypical son of the era. And Dorothy Parker, who died last week...
Activism spread beyond a small minority. On other campuses, the broad majority might still be silent, leading Clark Kerr to claim that a few noisy malcontents had exaggerated the dissatisfaction of this college generation. At Harvard, however, political and social activism--expressed in a variety of service in the slums as well as anti-war demonstrations in the Cambridge streets--became an important class-wide phenomenon. Though there were outstanding individuals, one of the things which impressed Dean Monro about his last senior class at Harvard was the "breadth of involvement...
...Denver, demonstrators with black arm bands protesting capital punishment formed a silent procession in front of the Statehouse, while in Canon City a similarly grim tableau formed alongside the walls of the Colorado State Prison. Inside, Luis Jose Monge calmly prepared to die for the brutal murder in 1963 of his wife and three of his ten children. Resisting a nationwide trend against capital punishment (TIME, April 21), Colorado voters last November voted 2 to 1 to retain the death penalty, and the state was about to execute its 77th prisoner...
...sound track unconvincingly takes the press and television to task for supposedly refusing to discuss the possibilities of nuclear war, and asks: "Is there a real hope to be found in this silence?" And one scene of nuclear holocaust is accompanied by the strains of Silent Night, ludicrously amplifying a potential tragedy that certainly needs no enlargement...
...Cambridge route was as much a matter of politics as planning. And the highly visible opposition to the highway obscured some fundamental political realities: first, the forces against the highway were themselves splintered and not nearly so strong as they appeared; and second, there were many interests--mostly silent interests--which desperately wanted the highway to go down Brookline-Elm. The opposing forces neutralized each other. Once the DPW got around to picking the Cambridge segment of the highway, it could really heavily on engineering and traffic criteria, and by those standards, the DPW's engineers remained of one mind...