Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watkins has already made his point. A film about silence has, in its turn, been silenced. And, beyond the momentary horror, its audience will also remain silent...
Beating the System. Holt has noticed that children react by employing clever stratagems to beat the system and find that right answer. They detect the way a teacher unconsciously leans toward the correct answer of several on the blackboard; a student looks confused or stays silent until the teacher keeps asking leading questions and almost answers himself; other students mumble answers, aware that the teacher is attuned to the right answer, and will assume it was given. They fence-straddle, avoid commitment, live for the teacher's approving "yes." It becomes so automatic, Holt writes, that when he selects...
...made was to let each teacher decide whether or not to read the Bible, and give students a right to step momentarily out of the classroom. In Georgia, Associate Superintendent H. Titus Singletary concedes that most schools in his state have prayer, if only in the form of silent meditation...
...held out. Thumbs Down. Once again the Allis-Chalmers board retired to consider the offer. And once again it emerged with thumbs down. Stevenson cited doubts about the "realizable value" of the stock that L-T-V was offering, pointed again to the talks with his so far silent ally, General Dynamics. This time Allis-Chalmers had more vocal support. Obviously pulling for the home team was Thomas F. Nelson, the Wisconsin State securities division director. On the grounds that L-T-V had not registered a stock offer with his office, Nelson issued an order prohibiting...
...There is a credibility gap beginning to emerge," says Young, "and there are forces saying that the cause is hopeless, that American white people are so selfish that they will remain silent in this crisis, or that the American white people are congenitally immoral and so bankrupt that it is futile even to try to bring about change. I don't believe this, but not because I think that a large number of Americans are going to get more moral. They are simply going to get more intelligent...