Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With silent infighting skill that even Charlie Halleck must have admired, the rebels set about rounding up votes; they found them among Republicans of all ideological shades. When House Republicans finally caucused last week, the insurgents were in command: they elected Ford over Hoeven by a vote of 86 to 78, won seven new seats for themselves on the House Republican Policy Committee...
...Scene: a court of opinion Characters: a persecuting attorney, the Witness, Gutintent, and his silent counsel, Mr. Frank Sullivan...
...realized that his time was almost up. He walked across the hall and asked the attendant to buzz him into the reading room. The old man pushed a button, electric locks disengaged, and Gridley walked on through, past the austere scholars and the academic secretaries clicking away at their silent typewriters. He waited for another buzz and then took the bridge to Widener, re-entering the stacks at Level 1, where he took the elevator up beyond Level 6, beyond the Church History section and Migne's Patrologia Latina with its 200-odd volumes, finally exiting by special...
Last week was University of Detroit Silent Record Week. The Dartmouth Winter Carnival perhaps takes place this month. Oysters are edible...
...working-out of the story has the melodramatic naivete of an early silent film, but the stage skills of the cast speak a universal language. Masked and bearded for their roles, the actors show their youth only in their piping voices. They are prodigious acrobats. Li-Pu's groom does not scale an enemy wall; he vaults over it with a somersault. The soldiers' duels mate the formality of ballet with the split-second timing of a trapeze act. Girls make ribbons of cloth hiss, curl and swirl through the air like rainbow-colored py thons. The evening...