Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics call him remote and heartless, but Nixon believes that he is linked in a mysterious way to the great American majority?the silent American, the middle American, the middle class, the middleaged. He believes a majority of Americans share his vision of a traditionalist revival, of trying to make less government work better, of encouraging local remedies and local responsibilities for local problems. It is his version of power to the people, and it is a power he thinks can be harnessed to change the direction and spirit of the country for good. Observes TIME's Hugh Sidey...
Since it is impossible to read all these books, shouldn't we divest ourselves of them? Why should the student, who no longer has the time to read, endure the silent indictments of those unbroken bindings, those laminated spines, whenever he enters his own room? After all, there is no obligation to be the possessor of things which have no use. Not until we learn that reading is an obsessive act, even a necessity, will we become at home in our libraries...
Though many parishioners apparently knew of the liaison and were not disturbed by it, Cecile's parents did complain-to Toulouse's Archbishop Jean Guyot. In a gentle, anguished message read from Toulouse pulpits, Guyot said, "I wish I could remain silent," but reluctantly stated that priests who violate their vows of celibacy must consider themselves "relieved of their priestly functions." Thereupon, Forestier resigned, together with six of his colleagues in the working-class parish of St. Francis Xavier; the seven posted a statement of solidarity on their parish-house door. Though Forestier's comrades were somewhat...
...movie is rather abrupt and disconnected, partly because that is the nature of Di Noi's trial, but also because Director Loy too often seems eager to get his character through the course. Sordi's face is India rubber, his body a whole silent vocabulary of bewilderment. He is a grand master of the single, perfect gesture that cannot only shape a scene but punctuate it. Addled after submitting to a quick series of police mug shots, Di Noi is asked for his "other profile" and hastily turns the back of his head to the camera. Protesting...
...lasts 15. It is the seemingly final verbal spasm of a woman of 70 (Tandy) who recounts fragments of her life and concludes that even her suffering does not add up to much of anything. Only the woman's spotlighted mouth can be seen, along with a huge, silent druidic figure who flaps his arms from time to time in what may be compassionate annoyance...