Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were my ancestors doing in 1677, back there in Germany? Who are we, here at Harvard College in 1963, the vessels of countless traditions each of us now absorbing curious sequences of unrelated facts which will help to determine what we and our children shall become? The library is silent. The silence is summering. There is so much we shall never learn...
Taken together these wealthy Uncle Toms and the militant members of the NAACP comprise only a small proportion of the Negro community here. Most Negroes have remained silent about civil rights. "You workin' for civil rights?" one young Negro asked a colored member of our project. "Man, you backin' the wrong horse. They'll never let you get anywhere so you better get out and make the money...
...Three games had to be postponed when the combatants showed up sick. But training was starting to tell: after 21 games, Petrosyan led 12-9, needed just one more draw to clinch the best-out-of-24 match. As Game No. 22 started, a warning sign flashed KEEP SILENT, and TV cameras eagerly dollied in. After only nine moves, Petrosyan proposed a draw. Botvinnik refused. "Go ahead," he said. "Move." The challenger moved, and leaned back, his face impassive, eyes half closed. Five minutes dragged by, then ten, then...
Marine Biologist Rachel Carson is mentioned only once in the U.S. Government's report on the use of pesticides. But its authors, sponsored by Presidential Science Adviser Jerome B. Wiesner, leave little doubt that it was Miss Carson who put them to work. Before her book Silent Spring appeared, they point out, "people were generally unaware of the toxicity of pesticides." Now the public is so worked up that the report issued last week seems at least partly designed to encourage legislation that will control, but not prevent, the use of valuable chemicals...
...that is not aloof, but as if it had been observed by a sympathetic stranger. His family portrait serves as a reminder that all the English puritans were not harried out of the land; some stayed in old England to keep up. generation after generation, a solid but mainly silent opposition to the glories of blood and state. The Wains were pacifists, and the family felt holier-than-thou toward both working class and rulers: they alone were "saved" in a world of wicked madmen. Wain records the effect of this upbringing: "I was evasive, cowardly, dirty-minded, egotistical...