Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appearance, no explanation or rationale offered. The first news of the attacks came not from the White House but from Radio Hanoi. Nixon imposed a press blackout on all but the skimpiest details of the raids, and ordered everyone from Cabinet officials to bomber pilots to keep silent. Inquiries about civilian casualties were met with the catechism, "We have targeted and continue to target only military targets." Reporters accompanying the Bob Hope Christmas show to airbases in Thailand were sternly warned not to ask pilots any questions except about Bob Hope, Christmas and home...
...bombing stirred mixed hut predominantly critical reactions in the U.S. and round the world. Most of America's European allies were officially silent. The themes of world, reaction ranged from outrage, to a more moderate sadness, to a kind of unenthusiastic sympathy for the President's implacable line. Only on Taiwan and in Saigon were the raids greeted with almost unmitigated satisfaction. Then, with the bombing halt, came expressions of relief and hope mixed with recrimination. A sampling of reactions...
...Attica riot a radical conspiracy, or was it provoked by harsh treatment of prison inmates? Could the toll of 43 dead have been avoided? Countless books, studies and articles have debated the questions. Throughout all the argument, one group remained silent: the Wyoming County grand jury that was poring over the evidence to determine what criminal charges should be brought. Now it is handing down its indictments-37 so far-and last week the first formal accusations were brought against convict leaders who emerged during the revolt...
...sister Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of some awful unspecified illness. As they attend her during her last days, they remember and relive old memories of childhood, of deep bitterness and irresolvable rivalries. They touch each other, torment each other. The only source of strength in this stately, silent household is the stolid maid Anna (Kari Sylwan), whose own daughter has died and who lavishes all her love and her tenderness on Agnes...
...sense, argues Thompson, the astronauts underwent a kind of temporal redemption, much like the one envisioned 34 years ago in C.S. Lewis' theological space fantasy Out of the Silent Planet. In Lewis' novel, the earth is the devil's territory and the prison of fallen man, quarantined by the powers and dominations of the divine milieu around it. But those who escape the silent planet can recover their cosmic orientation...