Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcement greeted with unguarded praise. Kissinger was unabashedly delighted; President Nixon, who might have hoped to win it himself, said that the award gave "deserved recognition to the art of negotiation itself in the process of ending a war and laying the groundwork for peace." Hanoi, however, was resoundingly silent, lending substance to rumors that Tho would not accept the prize...
With bullets whining in the Middle East and President Nixon silent in the White House, Harvard's methods of managing its money attracted little attention this week...
Nixon made himself more visible Thursday than he'd been for a week, if not equally as silent. His right-hand man, Kissinger, declared that the mobilization was necessary to avert a Soviet threat to move troops into the Middle East unilaterally in order to enforce the cease-fire...
Whatever its validity, the Soviets ignored the warning, just as they have remained all but totally silent on the entire Israel-Austria imbroglio. Moscow is extremely sensitive to the question of Jewish emigration, which-though it has totaled 70,000 Jews in the past two years-goes unpublicized in the Soviet Union. The Soviets are under heavy pressure from the U.S. and other Western countries to allow Jews to leave, while they are under a counterpressure from Arabs to stop the emigration. Jews represent only 1% of the Soviet population of nearly 250 million, but they have earned a disproportionately...
...vision is a very personal one; he doesn't dwell on the medium, but goes past it almost to the point of a silent conversation with the reader. Merwin is one of the few poets who, by reaching into his own inner loneliness, can reach across his words to the aloneness that...