Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DELIUS: SONGS OF FAREWELL (Angel). "How sweet the silent backward tracings!" Walt Whitman's verses begin. Delius was blind when he wrote this tone poem for double chorus and orchestra, with its sliding harmonies complex in texture yet as delicate as sighs. Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society...
...said, "I am always conscious of the ocean here." So conscious, in fact, that he sliced his second shot clear over to the opposite side of the 18th fairway, wound up stymied behind a tree. Whereupon Massengale pulled a No. 8 iron from his bag, said a silent prayer and swung. The ball sailed straight through a hole in the branches and landed on the green only 4 ft. from the pin. The easy birdie putt gave him a one-stroke victory worth...
...their art as expressing not only the machine but also nature itself. Says Critic-Sculptor George Rickey: "Nature is rarely still. She follows natural laws: gravity, Newton's laws of motion, the traffic laws of topology." Gabo proclaimed: "Look at a ray of sun-the quietest of the silent strengths-it runs 300,000 kilometers in a second. Our starry sky -does anyone hear it?" But whether attuned to the music of the spheres or the metallic clanking of makeshift machines, artists by the score are now trying to make poetry out of motion. Among the leaders (all shown...
...proposed code does not provide lawyers for those unable to afford them because the reporters would prefer that suspects not exercise their right to remain silent, and they fear that lawyers would advise suspects of this right more effectively than would the police. It is a dangerous philosophy for the Government to grant a right (i.e., to refuse to answer incriminating questions) and then, out of fear that the right may be exercised, to deny most citizens effective access to the information necessary to its exercise. This is what the reporters have proposed and why I am opposed to their...
Julian understood that he would not "sell out." He wouldn't promise on thing and do another. But he was afraid that when he felt he should speak out although it wasn't necessary that he'd choose the easy way out and remain silent...