Word: silents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question of conscience that The Deputy raises is bound to survive the play and to condition any future judgment of Pius XII: Is it morally defensible for the Vicar of Christ on earth to remain silent in the face of such monstrous evil? And must not every man of good will or religious conscience bear witness to what he believes before and sometimes against the world? But Hochhuth does not stick to this lofty issue. As a German, he lives guiltily with guilt, the knowledge that the Nazi leaders and the people who brought them to power must bear...
...another, every journalist who can manage it is entering a book in the political sweepstakes. But Columnist Joseph Alsop seems determined to buck the trend. His offering: From the Silent Earth, a report on the Bronze Age of ancient Greece...
Though Monk's career has been painful and often thankless, it has also been a tortoise-and-hare race with flashier, more ingratiating men?many of whom got lost in narcotic fogs, died early in squalor and disgrace or abandoned their promise, to fall silent on their horns. Monk goes on. It is his high philosophy to be different, and having steadily ignored all advice and all the fads and vogues of jazz that made lesser musicians grow rich around him, he now reaps the rewards of his conviction gladly but without surprise. He has a dignified, three-album...
...result, Spears tried to compromise: he has written a study of Auden's poetry using biographical material where it was directly relevant to what the poet was writing. Otherwise Spears is silent about the intriguing life W.H. Auden...
...American servicemen may give no orders, and gripe sessions in the U.S. barracks pour forth stories of daily duodenals. There was, for example, the time not long ago when three government battalions totaling 1,400 men encountered a single Viet Cong sniper, who fired three shots, then fell silent. But the government commander refused to dispatch a patrol after the sniper, explaining: "If we send men out there he might start shooting again." The three battalions painstakingly skirted their way past, at the cost of an hour's delay...