Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language in revenge refuses to cooperate in helping us to understand what we are talking about." The language has also taken its revenge at home, from the Vietspeak of "fragging" and "pacification" to the home-brewed jargon of "pigs" and "fascist conspiracies." The campuses have again begun to turn silent (as in the '50s), not in a spirit of tranquillity but with a sense of impotence and self-interest. The rage of the antiwar demonstrators has dissipated without a true sense of initiative or accomplishment. The once powerful liberals, pursued by such unforgiving histories as David Halberstam...
...guns had barely fallen silent in Viet Nam when President Nixon issued a call to counterrevolution at home. He unwrapped a budget for fiscal 1974 that in effect summons the U.S. to bury the Great Society-by ironic coincidence just after the death of its moving force, Lyndon Johnson. Nixon also called upon the nation to reverse the big-Government trend that has been gathering strength since the New Deal, and to return to a simpler day of self-reliance and local solutions to problems of poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing and crime. The budget, says a high White House aide...
...because I have too many friends at home in Dallas who voted for him at the same time they harbored a deep resentment for his candidacy. Mr. Nixon no doubt foresees a long period of campus dormancy ahead, perhaps even a return to the intellectual stagnation linked to the Silent Generation of the 1950s. And he interprets the most recent change in student populations as the inevitable triumph of American ideals; he credits to our generation a common sense, derived largely from a revulsion of the aims and means of our predecessors...
...cheers still ringing in his ears, that afflicted Frazier even more. As it has been at each of Ali's fights after his return to the American ring to fight Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, the crowd at the Fight of the Century was largely black. It was in their silent ambivalence towards him that Frazier, lying with his face in cotton gauze in a hospital after the fight, must have first found the tracks of a stalking demon. It must have then crossed his mind and reared the haunting possibility that no matter what else he did, Joe Frazier would...
...found here: the dance of the rolls. Big Jim McKay thinking Chaplin a chicken. Chaplin's delight at the smile Georgia meant for another man. Every scene, even every slapstick gag, contributes to the film as a whole--that's one reason Chaplin stands so far above other silent comedians...