Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morrison's protagonist is also called Macon Dead-grandson of the freed slave. He is nicknamed Milkman because his mother suckled him until he was almost tall enough for his feet to touch the floor. Yet he remains starved as a child for the heritage his silent family cannot or will not provide. His one wish is to fly. "To have to live without that single gift saddened him and left his imagination so bereft that he appeared dull." At twelve, he meets an outcast aunt, Pilate Dead, who fills the role of tribal storyteller. She tells...
...granted for the express purpose of enabling Lance to buy, with two partners, a majority share of the stock in his own bank. Federal law forbids banks to make such loans to their own officers, lest unscrupulous bankers use depositors' money to enrich themselves; but the law is silent about stock-purchase loans to correspondent bankers. Yet if a banker cannot borrow money from his own bank to buy its stock, why should he be allowed to borrow from a correspondent bank for the same purpose? It is clearly time for a new law that would shift the burden...
Still more probes are under consideration. The Securities and Exchange Commission may begin an inquiry into NBG's affairs. Senate Republicans are at last showing some interest in Lance's troubles. They had been uncharacteristically silent, chiefly because they liked his moderate economic views. Now Senator Robert Dole and House Republican Conference Chairman John Anderson are urging Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff to reopen his Senate Government Affairs Committee's once-over-lightly hearing on Lance's loans. Without wait ing for that investigation to get under way, Anderson last week became the first major congressional figure...
...peaceful backwater in the modern world, Rhodes is fortunate enough to have avoided the ravages of progress, standing in silent testimony to the events of days long past...
What will Mel Brooks and his little band of comic brothers do when they run out of old movie genres to parody? In the course of a distinguished career in anarchy, Brooks himself has taken on the backstage musical, the western, the gothic creature feature and silent comedy. His sometime star Gene Wilder made steak-and-kidney pie of the Victorian detective romance in Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother year before last. Now we must somehow come to grips with another Brooks star turning director-writer in'order to send up a formerly beloved movie form in a show...