Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian Communist Party, which like the Japanese was silent during the Party Congress, is more openly split: five members of the party's 25-member central executive committee favor Peking (the center of such sentiment is West Bengal), although General Secretary Ajoy Ghosh is a Khrushchev disciple, and accuses Red China of antagonizing the Indian masses by fomenting border incidents. The freeze in Sino-Indian relations was reflected this week in New Delhi, where the Russians opened a glittering pavilion at an international industrial fair, while the Chinese boycotted the event...
...George Washington: "If Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." In fact, Washington was exhorting his ragged men not to mutiny against the Government in disgust because they had not been paid...
...delicatessen that stays open past midnight; the locksmith and the cobbler, and the florist's potted sidewalk garden; the front-stoop squads with time and chitchat on their hands; the old man gazing like a mute portrait from the frame of his second-story window; and the strangely silent Sunday morning, sweet with the smell of freshly washed streets...
From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...
...knows from experience and frequent trips all over the U.S., the college girl of the classes of '62, '63, '64 and '65 is a creature of high emotions, originality, beauty, freedom and wisdom. Notably missing are the "apathetes" of the '50s-the "silent generation." President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College, a noted expert on U.S. student attitudes, credits the change to the nation's recent peace and prosperity-a nice switch on the notion that only a war or a depression can make students serious. "Today's college...