Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patient white trouser button looking up from a puddle in the street, a submissive bit of bark that an ant drags through the high grass in its strong jaws to uncertain but important destinations. Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard...
...Silent Running. Pi Alley...
FROM the moment Tracy was born, Arthur and Claudia Albertsen of Chicago knew something was wrong. The doctor kept saying that delivery had been normal; nurses, who usually bustle cheerfully around a new mother, were strangely silent. Says the mother now: "Tracy came into the world not fully completed. She is literally missing part of her brain." The victim of a chromosomal abnormality, Tracy suffers from what doctors call "profound" mental retardation. At 21 months, she can neither walk nor feed herself, nor say the few words that most children her age have begun to utter. Her life expectancy...
...Yorker has always run articles about public issues," Editor Shawn says; the magazine can cite such warnings as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time ten years ago. But Shawn agrees that both the urgency and frequency of political pieces have increased sharply. In his view, the turning point was the 1970 Cambodian invasion. Richard Goodwin, once a Kennedy speechwriter, wrote a denunciation of Nixon's "usurpation" of power; Shawn used it as an editorial. After that "Notes and Comment," once the fluffy lead-in to each issue, frequently became...
...vague, and ideas suggested rather than baldly stated. In 1968 he became the only Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for literature; the citation mentioned his mastery in revealing "the essence of the Japanese mind." He left no suicide note, but years ago he offered a possible explanation: "A silent death is an endless word...