Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Further ploys, including lying about McNamara's schedule on Monday and the use of decoy cars, failed to frustrate our attempts to confront McNamara in public at Quincy House. They did, however, succeed in turning the planned silent confrontation into a mass of running people angry at the deception characteristic of both the government's Vietnam policy and the Institute's evasion of its responsibility to the public. In spite of this, and of McNamara's "tougher-than-thou" attitude, he suffered nothing worse than considerable, and deserved, embarrassment. Meanwhile rowdy students managed to create the sound and smell...
...SILENT. As for Danny, he notified his lawyer,removed his shoes, went to sleep in his cell, and prepared to let the prosecutor try to prove his case...
Campbell, however, has been far from silent in the past two years. As assistant attorney general for civil rights under Edward A. Brooke, Campbell was responsible for Massachusetts' dramatic defense of the 1965 Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court. He enlisted Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and former U.S. Solicitor General, to join him in presenting an amicus curiae brief containing arguments the Court later used in declaring its support...
Siday, 61, is a graduate of London's Royal Academy of Music, first learned about mood music while playing the violin for silent movies. He moved to the U.S. in 1938, played and wrote the arrangements for Ray Noble's orchestra and Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. Later, with his friend, the late Austen Croom-Johnson, co-father of the singing commercial ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot"), he wrote the signature themes for 26 radio stations. But, claims Siday, that is old stuff now. "You just can't get a good drenching rain sound with an orchestra...
Sensing their inadequacy, such men often approach the steps with the exaggerated skulk of a silent movie Indian. Shoulders forced close together, head dropped but eyes in all directions, they scuttle up the steps close to one of the stone blocks on either side. This saves half the face from sleazy scrutiny. Once behind the protecting curtain of columns they turn and walk 25 paces to the doorway...