Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge auditorium was filled to capacity. The delegates were impressed by their surroundings, and what impressed them most was that everything worked perfectly, from the almost silent escalators to the air conditioning, from the earphones to the hot and cold running water in the marble lavatories. Snack bars and soft drinks were available in the seventh-floor restaurant, which Western newsmen were calling the ''Top of the Marx." No one bothered to tell the impressed delegates that the tiled floors and kitchen refrigerators had been installed by two British firms, or that the air conditioning and electric wiring...
...around us, particularly among our elders, unfilled and frustrated human potentialties, personalities ground flat, material want, and ruined lives. . . . Small wonder that the first post-war generation could be called silent. In view of this history, 'mute' would have been better. We demand your patience; we learning how to talk." from an editorial in New University Thought...
...spark flashes, turning the nitrogen into a plasma by ionizing its atoms. The heavy current, which lasts only a few millionths of a second, creates a magnetic field that gives the plasma a powerful "pinch" and sends it squirting in brief bursts through a carefully shaped hole. The silent blue-white flash of escaping plasma looks harmless and feeble, but its temperature reaches as high as 200,000° F., and its particles shoot into the vacuum at 100,000 m.p.h...
Died. Juanita Hansen, 66, blonde heroine of the silent screen's daredevil thriller serials, who was dragged from Hollywood's heights by dope addiction, later broke the habit and toured the country lecturing on the evils of narcotics, eventually settled down as a Southern Pacific train dispatcher; of a heart attack; in West Hollywood, Calif...
...survived. She utters a prayer, sings a song, chews the nostalgic cud of memory. Actress Ruth White, though she plays her role with more gallantry than Beckett's morgue-attendant austerities call for, stars vocally: she croons, keens, gurgles, fumes and screams at her all-but-silent partner. A bottomless black shopping bag provides the day's events. Finding a toothbrush, she brushes her teeth punctiliously. She swigs some pink pep medicine, kisses an evilly glinting revolver and dons a perkily feathered hat. "These things tide one over," she says. Her talkfest acquires a haunting reflective cadence...