Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly the blue-green Gulf Stream erupted with convulsive fury. Like a giant marlin in a cascade of brine, a grey, bottle-shaped monster leaped into the afternoon. For an instant it hung against the sky-silent, ominous, streaming foam. Then it came alive with unearthly racket. Its tail belched flame, and it climbed into its new element with incredible ease. Arcing high into the thin, cold reaches of space, the first ballistic missile ever to be fired from a submerged submarine swung surely toward the south and east. Polaris, named for the mariner's bright pole star, needed...
...Kennedy enclave at Hyannisport, Mass.-usually swarming with dogs, children, bicycles and softball teams-was strangely silent last week. The bright green lawns stretching from Jack's and Brother Bob's homes to Father Joe's oceanfront manse were deserted...
...killed in a gun battle with bandits, Tibbett grew up in Los Angeles, sang in the high school glee club, earned small fees singing at funerals. After serving in World War I, he embarked on a professional acting career, but soon found himself singing the musical prologues to silent films at Hollywood's old Grauman Theater. On borrowed money he traveled to New York, auditioned for the Met twice before he was signed to a $60-a-week contract. He was just 26, and it was not until two years later that his name hit the headlines in Falstaff...
...present version was fitted together from pieces of several prints discovered after a long search of Europe. It is unquestionably an antique, with scratchy sound, uncertain lighting and a mannered kind of acting carried over from the silent films.. But it is not the sort of antique that must be watched with embarrassment. Lotte Lenya, as Jennie, is gawkily charming, and such Kurt Weill-Bert Brecht songs as Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny retain their peculiar combination of sentiment and cynicism, even when filtered through English subtitles. Viewers who have seen the English stage version that has played...
Though Raab remained diplomatically silent through Nikita's tirades, the Austrian people made their feelings plain. Most boycotted Khrushchev's public appearances; special Masses were held for the "silent Church" behind the Iron Curtain. "A demagogue is using Austria as a base for propaganda rockets," cried the Vienna daily Express...