Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past seven years, except for translations and movie work (Ben Hur, the forthcoming Barabbas), he has been silent, in the grip of what he has described as a crisis of confidence. Last week his first play since 1954 opened, strongly suggesting that at 53 Fry is far from written...
During the Sacco-Venzetti trial, Heywood Broun was writing a column for the New York World. Head of a committee to free the convicted men, his writing became passionate. The World, which pursued a more moderate course, fired Broun after requesting that he remain silent on the subject...
After the game, the Crimson locker room was silent. Despite the championship and one of the best records in the history of Harvard hockey (18-4-2), the team was bewildered. By Forstman's uncanny feats, no doubt...
...nothing moves at all. The paintings offer windows looking out on blind space, but remain as two-dimensional and flat as the canvas itself. The same formula seems to be repeated over and over again, yet the moods evoked are many. Rothko's paintings are as remote and silent as some forgotten civilization, but if contemplated long enough, they do cast a certain spell...
...Herman Kahn will receive a blase reaction from those who indeed do absorb his voluminous and repititious points. Since only the very enthralled will bother with the book, they could naturally be expected to have violent reactions one way or the other; as for the rest--the apathetic public, silent generation, or whatever you want to call them--they neither actively care about nor know from such things, so their indifference matters little (at least at this stage...