Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he feels ineffectual as an individual. When he feels like griping, the average American faces an adversary that the framers of the Constitution did not envision. It is the burgeoning mass society, a creature with a remorseless, faceless, self-declared efficiency that intimidates many Americans and renders them silent when they should be talking louder. Too many people still doubt that complaining will do any good. Those ultimately responsible for this state of affairs seem baffling and remote. Is anybody listening when an individual-as distinct from a powerful, publicity-seeking group like Nader's-seeks...
When DDT first appeared in the U.S. in 1942, it seemed almost like a miracle drug. Cheap and efficient, it destroyed pests, reduced such insect-borne diseases as malaria, and brought bumper harvests. But over the years scientists found disturbing evidence, first publicized in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, that DDT was harmful to animals too, and might threaten man as well...
...final, saddening comment was provided by the Iranian, Mischa Saleki who informally decamped via the supply helicopter: "It is better for one nation to go up a mountain." Indomitable Everest, looking on in silent disdain must surely have agreed...
...Well, I guess it'll take the experience a few days to sink in," Miller said hopefully, but he was silent and down driving back across the Bay Bridge to Oakland. His four-week high finally at an end, he drank a glass of milk and went...
...young activists in a group called The People First collected 10,000 signatures in support of Troy's removal. In 28 affidavits drawn up with the help of the Boston Legal Assistance Project, lawyers and law students accused Troy of denying defendants everything from the right to remain silent to the right to cross-examine. More recently, three different federal and state judges reviewing Troy decisions went out of their way to criticize his performance. In one case he was found to have been "both accuser and judge" of two men charged with nonsupport of their children. In another...