Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing, he's more interesting. He's also committed to building an egalitarian socialist society, while Nixon's brand of socialism is apparently reserved for his friends at ITT, the Maritime industry, Lockheed, the grain warehouses and the other government-subsidized big boys. For everybody else--for the silent majority whom Nixon described as "the children of the house" in a November interview--the President prescribes hard work, self-reliance and "no free lunch" economics...
Largely because Dayan is something of a living legend in Israel, there has been no scandal over the book, and no comment by the government; Dayan himself has been silent. By and large, Israelis seem to share the tolerant attitude of former Premier David Ben-Gurion: he once pointed out to a husband whose wife had run off with Dayan that Lord Nelson (who was also blind in one eye) had an affair with Lady Hamilton that did not tarnish his heroic image "even in puritanical England." When Ruth Dayan complained directly to Ben-Gurion about her husband, he replied...
...part, increased attention to the arts was M.I.T.'s response to criticism from students and faculty in the late 1960s about the institute's dependence on military research. But long after the critical voices fell silent, the arts continued to flourish, largely because of pipe-smoking, affable President Wiesner, 57. To him, "A person is much less of a human being if he thinks of himself only as a technocrat. Society needs the cognitive reaction of a poet as well as a technologist...
Fortunately for the advocates of a shield bill, the committee's action will not prevent its passage. There remains a chance that the committee will support a more conservative measure, provided the silent committee members are in favor of a protective bill. Hopefully, the state's legislators will be more open minded than the members of the judiciary committee...
McGovern said that although he has not always been satisfied with the press, the government's assault on the press since the Pentagon Papers' release in 1971 must be stopped before the newspapers become "blank and silent airwaves on the great issues" confronting the country...