Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amorous exploits of Israel's charismatic Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, are almost as well known in Israel as his military victories. Through battlefield coups and bedroom conquests, Ruth Dayan, Moshe's wife for 36 years until their divorce in 1971, remained silent. Now she has come out with a poignant memoir, which has become an overnight bestseller in Israel, of her life with the famous warrior...
Except for Wylie, the members of the committee, including Ackermann, who voted against reconsideration remained silent during last night's meeting...
...episode is not a memory but a dream. Anna, who has been Agnes's most constant companion, hears weeping in the night; at first, it seems a baby's howl, but her own child has long been dead. She runs to Agnes's room; outside, Karin and Maria stand silent and motionless. She goes to Agnes, and sees a tear running down the corpse's face. Agnes asks Anna for Karin, but when Karin enters the older sister rejects the younger: "I want no part of your death...If I loved you it might be different...
...know that there is nothing but solid unbroken wheat for a thousand miles. These fields are sparsely but evenly inhabited, just as they are among the corn to the north. Richard Nixon was one of the first to point out something special about the people here--that they are silent. Other things are strange and haunting in a land like this: all is not good clean work and healthy abundance in the Sacred Middle, and artists are just beginning to find this interesting...
Thus Roland Barthes's essay on "The New Citroen" and the magic of its attraction, in Mythologies. A smooth, silent, seamless object, the modern automobile speaks the myth of a nature which is miraculous and benign. No longer does the automobile express mere speed, but speed with natural grace. Its surface and shape defy the sense of touch, make it seem already in motion, and imply a nature which is orderly and self-coherent. It is like a goddess who brings the order of heaven down to earth--and prostitutes herself to every petit-bourgeois who can afford the monthly...