Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come here to talk to you but with our African friends." Smirnov turned on his heel and stalked up the aisle, where a German attendant, not realizing it was the Soviet ambassador, grabbed his arm and marched him out of the hall. The 60-odd Africans present remained silent. But Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier had to warn angry Germans in the audience that Smirnov had diplomatic immunity...
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan set the ball rolling. After politely inspecting mines, factories, and "model" Black townships, he made his celebrated "winds of change" speech to an astounded White Parliament in Cape Town. He made it clear that Great Britain could no longer remain silent about apartheid, and condemned it vigorously...
...striking feature of the rising Kennedy tide has been the return to the fold by traditionally Democratic voters who switched to President Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. The most important factor determining the state's political complexion has been Kennedy's religion, the "silent issue...
...members of the ensemble and "edited" by Foss. The music was rather faceless-tricked out with a full Modern Composer's Kit of dissonances, rhythmic angularities, splashy climaxes. Against this background, Foss and the ensemble worked out their improvisations. It was in the Intermezzo, when the orchestra was silent, that Foss's technique of "controlled chance" came into fullest play. The Foss ensemble was free to improvise -and it did, with some highly interesting results. The instruments traded themes, stitched their own sinewy figurations, advanced and retreated from the solo role...
...harridan of a housekeeper. Among Father Roque's other trials are an arrogant matron who will not bathe ("Imagine finding yourself naked in a puddle of water!"), a telephone operator who like most of her sisters answers a driving call of curiosity, and virile fishermen who give silent Spanish lessons to gringas. Perhaps most appealing is the all-too-friendly girl who tells Father Roque in the confessional, "Self-denial? But, Father, don't deprive me of the one thing that's free...