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...names of every graduate of our school who had died during World War II and then we’d look up their pictures in old yearbooks as a way of putting a face to a name. And at 11 o’clock, everything goes silent, even the radio stations...
...intrepid artists of Harvard are constantly looking towards the future. “We’re hoping to have a Silent Dance at the Harvard-Yale game,” Mahfouda said enthusiastically. “We’re hoping to get a lot of small radios and headphones—WHRB [Harvard’s radio show] will be involved—and have everyone tune in to the show and dance. That way there’s no noise, but the music’s everywhere...
...FILM | Silent Running...
...chapters go, each walk in a different place, with emphasis placed on the weather, the changes of season, encounters with animals and brief, mostly silent exchanges with people. One sequence has the man engage in an unspoken race with a fellow perambulator; in another he climbs a small-scale Mt. Fuji replica. With few words spoken you must piece together the "story," such as it is, almost entirely from the visuals. In its emphasis on quiet, low-key activities and cutaways to environmental details, "The Walking Man" evokes the atmosphere of the films of Yasujiro Ozu ("Tokyo Story," "Early Spring...
...scholarship selection committee, notifying me that I had been denied an interview. Not terribly surprised, I forwarded the message to several friends, joking that my birthday was off to a great start. Sarcasm wasn’t going to get me through the day. By 2 p.m. my silent cell phone had me convinced that my parents had forgotten my birthday. By 3 p.m. I realized that my significant other had too. The evidence was in and the jury reached a disheartening verdict: Twenty-three is the ugliest number...