Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surely wants to believe in the music at least as much as the story on stage. Floyd is ambivalent about his uses of music. He gives Doll a sweet ditty to sing as she makes dolls for two neighbors' children, but in a mad scene she is totally silent. Can one imagine Strauss or Donizetti abdicating their composers' rights at a moment like that...
...time the orchestra was silent, the presidential party was seated and a bishop was on his feet, speaking at awful length, as bishops will. This holy man favoured peace, commerce and God, in that order...
Rostropovich's outspoken support of intellectual dissidents put him in constant trouble with the Soviet government. He was barred from travel abroad for three years. His refusal to sign letters denouncing Andrei Sakharov led to the onset of what the cellist calls "silent torture." When he gave refuge to his friend Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who spent four years in Rostropovich's home, the cellist's musical life in the Soviet Union was squelched. Radio announcers were not permitted to mention his name. At one point all his concerts were cancelled. Once, in a small town, Rostropovich saw men obscuring posters...
...York Governor Hugh Carey is not talking to his political muscleman and personal pal, State Democratic Chairman Patrick Cunningham. This silent treatment bespeaks no lack of affection but is part of Carey's effort to rebut accusations of collusion to obstruct justice...
...with Mary. The situation makes him terse and glum. If he can't do it, poor, dead-voiced Mary wants to talk about it. In one of the show's more venturesome scenes, written by Lear himself, Mary complains that she cannot masturbate while Tom fumes with silent humiliation. "I can't do it and you can't talk about it," she says finally...