Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maria Callas, who has not done much singing from opera house stages in the past three years, has had eight new recordings issued anyway. Rudolf Schock made the biggest gain among tenors (14 to 38), but it must give him an edgy feeling to see that Enrico Caruso, silent these many years, is right behind him, having posthumously grown in popularity from 20 to 36, thanks to reissues of old recordings. Mario Del Monaco is the most recorded tenor with 39, Fernando Corena the most recorded basso (38), and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with an astonishing jump from...
When Wallace finished, Katzenbach asked him to "step aside." Wallace simply stood there. "From the outset, Governor," said Katzenbach, "all of us have known that the final chapter of this history will be the admission of these students." Wallace remained silent, glaring with melodramatic scorn. "Very well," said Katzenbach. He turned away, and, under a prearranged plan, the feds escorted the two students to their dormitory rooms...
Among Mississippi Negroes, the anger over Evers' murder coiled like a snake. Thirteen ministers began a silent walk, one by one, at widely spaced intervals toward city hall. To Jackson's cops, this was just another protest march-and up came the paddy wagons to haul the marchers off. Next day, the cops rushed a group standing on a porch, clubbed some Negroes, grabbed a white man, throttled him with a billy club, kicked and beat him till blood gushed from his wounds. A day later, Negro youngsters again moved down the street in ones and twos, carrying...
Within an hour after it began, the riot was over, the passions spent. By nightfall, as blue-hatted cops patrolled the city, all was silent. But behind drawn shades, Jackson still seethed...
...sometimes handsome streetwalkers standing guard on the sidewalk. Like many another foreign analyst of Anglo-Saxon attitudes, French Diarist Hippolyte Taine, visiting London in the mid 19th century, could not comprehend how the English could sustain the "vehemence and pungency of their passions" against "the harsh, though silent, grinding of their moral machinery...