Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Churchmen were in the vanguard of the demands for reform, except for the Afrikaner Dutch Reformed leaders, who remained silent. Durban's Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley warned bluntly that "Africans are determined to have political participation in their future, and I don't see how white South Africa can face up to it fast enough." The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Netherlands-born Joost de Blank, announced that he was sending a representative to Geneva to ask the World Council of Churches to expel the South African Dutch Reformed Church unless it takes a stand against Verwoerd...
...triumphal comeback for a fourth term as Burma's Premier, roly-poly U Nu put on the saffron robes of a Buddhist monk and retired into a monastery outside Rangoon for four days' silent contemplation. Then, wrapped again in his traditional, pale blue longyi and looking uncommonly mellow for the rough old campaigner he is, U Nu stepped last week before a Parliament in which his Union Party had won a thumping two-thirds majority in last February's elections, and proclaimed: "We are determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past...
...failure of American colleges is that so many students have not found education meaningful in their own lives." With this mouthful, the president of Connecticut's small (800 men) Wesleyan University in Middletown recently tackled a national question: If college students are brighter than ever, why are they "silent" and "apathetic...
Truth was that, apart from the organized knots of Reds, the crowds that turned out to see Khrushchev were mostly just curious-ancl often silent. And throughout the tour, Nikita was confronted by the weighty displeasure of France's Catholic hierarchy. Priests were forbidden to receive him in their churches. In Reims the Host was removed from the altar of the cathedral before Khrushchev was shown through-and a purification service was held after he had left. The church even succeeded in spiking one of the anticipated triumphs of the Agitprop men-Nikita's scheduled meeting with Canon...
...Silence played to packed audiences and drew queues at the box office. Its story: the ordeal of a factory hand ostracized by his mates for refusing to join a wildcat strike. As punishment, his fellow union members "sent him to Coventry"* and thus condemned him to life in a silent, hostile world...