Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's legions of vociferous supporters from November 1972 are a sprinkling now. Perhaps many simply stay silent. But many, many others do not. The President has violated something too basic and precious, though sometimes hard to perceive and explain. For Nixon, a recovery of trust seems impossible, his hold on office a precarious thing. The mood is one of passive disillusionment, but here and there it flickers into the kind of flame that could consume...
...private hands, such as a 10th-llth century figure of Krishna dancing on the hood of the cobra-demon Kaliya, holding up the creature's tail in a ripple of bronze like a Malay kris, and the majestic, decapitated Female Torso from llth century Cambodia, an image as silent and epigrammatic as any archaic Greek kouros...
...review, Octavio Paz described Los Olvidados as "implacable as the silent march of lava." I can't imagine a more apt metaphor to convey its impact. Famous scenes: the gang of young boys tormenting a blind man; Pedro's dream (more powerful and more complex than any described by Freud); the "second chance" offered by the liberal reformatory...
Loaded with gear and used for antisubmarine warfare, the monster would not make the American seaborne nuclear deterrent vulnerable overnight. But the strange aircraft would give the Russians a new and ominous means of hunting the U.S. Polaris/Poseidon and Trident submarines as they cruise in the silent depths of the seven seas...
...style similar to Orr's while sitting in the waiting-room of a doctor's office. Appearing in the New Yorker was a single poem by Mark Strand called "The Room." It describes a place much like that waiting-room: antiseptic, empty, bereft of any outward emotion, full of silent anticipation. A sense of detachment in the short, simple lines emphasizes an underlying presence of death and sorrow. And Strand's dreamlike collection of everyday objects paradoxically works to produce a coherent poem. Orr's poetry used the same simplicity, the same etherial contrast of commonplace images amid stark, unencumbered...