Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columnist Joseph Kraft-understood him better. They realized that his fears for his safety were justified and, more significant, that he had genuine economic grievances. With that, the Forgotten American had arrived, and the Republicans were the first to seize him. In 1968 he was metamorphosed into the Silent Majority and took a suitable place in a sort of faded Norman Rockwell portrait lit by a harsh new light. Even while denouncing and fearing the left-wing radicals, he himself grew impatient with politics as usual, and seemed ready to resort to more desperate measures. Middle American discontent as such...
...baseball. Deadlocked in a dispute with club owners over pension-fund payments, they boycotted all of the scheduled major league games. Across the country, stadiums, freshly mowed (or, in the case of those with artificial turf, vacuumed) in anticipation of the start of the new season, stood empty and silent...
When a company does something that may actually be illegal-falsifying statements of product quality, for example-an employee who is directly involved risks prosecution by remaining silent. A little-known federal law, on the books since 1790, compels persons who possess information about a felony to report it. In theory, federal and state laws against conspiracy and complicity apply to workers who aid and abet any illegal act committed in the name of a corporation. In a time when paid informers are in widespread use (see THE LAW), the legal position of employees who speak up will become...
...foot, he created a choreography of the human condition. Under Chaplin's direction, objects spoke out as never before: bread rolls became ballet slippers, a boot was transformed into a feast, a torn newspaper had a new career as a lace tablecloth. There have been more ambitious silent comedies than Chaplin's-Buster Keaton's The General combined yocks with the verisimilitude of Mathew Brady photographs; Harold Lloyd's and Ben Turpin's movies could wring as many laughs from an audience. But no one ever touched Chaplin's mute grace; no one ever...
...second teen-age bride. Three years later the Chaplins were divorced after loud litigation. The American public booed his on-screen image; annihilation beckoned. Chaplin tried a master tactic. "I married Lita Grey because I loved her," he announced in the sentimental idiom of the silent film. "Like other foolish men, I loved her more when she wronged me, and I'm afraid I still love her." The statement rescued Chaplin's career-until next time...