Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot afford to be silent again while these efforts go forward. Nor can we content ourselves with hasty, last-ditch efforts to defeat misguided government initiatives," he said...
Wolfe said today's students share the artist's contempt for "the silent majority." He cited the irony of a recent survey, in which 85 per cent of the American youths polled said they were "very happy" with their lives, but 83 per cent said democracy was "a sham...
...photographer hit it off, and in the years that followed Duncan clicked off some 50,000 photos of the master and his work, and produced three volumes of Pi-cassiana. In celebration of Picasso's 95th birthday on Oct. 25, Duncan has now produced a fourth, titled The Silent Studio (Norton), which focuses on Picasso's art-filled French Riviera villa and on Jacqueline, his wife for a dozen years before his death in 1973. "Living with Picasso was like living with a blowtorch; he was a consuming flame," says Duncan. That quality, he says, still survived...
...dramatic best. In this triangular tug-of-war, slow, measured exchanges marked by his famous pauses alternate with exquisitely lyrical monologues. Like the absurdists, Pinter suggests the fluidity of reality by riveting attention on the language that expresses it. His characters wonder at words, make verbal slips and fall silent. Gradually, as the stakes become clearer, the walls of civility they erect crumble; by the end, the ineluctable presence of the past bathes the stage with white light, illumining their loneliness and need...
...long way round on my way home so as to pass the Starr bookstore and not the garbage cans; architectural features that define our perceptions, like the daises of lecture rooms in Sever or Emerson, on which the professor performs or presides in front of an audience made silent spectators by the very structure of the room. These things are so integral to the way we move and think that I do not bother to imagine a bedroom uninhibited by a fire door, a Cambridge not dominated by Holyoke Center. But stop and think of a square concrete Lampoon...