Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson offense fell silent in the ninth and, walking away in the rain, you had to shake your head and say to yourself, "Zounds. What doth happened...
...then went through the agenda, asking about new business and old business, and the Faculty were silent. A professor then read some excerpts from the task force report on concentrations. Bok asked for discussion; the Faculty were silent. Bok asked again if anyone cared to comment on the proposals. The Faculty remained silent. The grandfather clock in the corner resolutely ticked off the seconds, and the faces on the wall looked down. Bok asked one last time. There was a nervous cough from the back of the room and a teacup rattled against a saucer on someone...
Bill Cento, a Berklee student, expressed unquotable disbelief when he found out that the clubs were going to close. Then he fell silent...
...earlier, to use Gornick's own gushing framework, her adolescent crush on the Old Left may have developed into a mature passion. Ten years in the other direction and she could have "realized herself" in the glorious Sixties. Instead, she grew up as a mildly disgruntled member of the silent generation, rousing herself to march sluggishly in the Rear Guard of the New Left. Then feminism revolutionized her life. She re-examined her political roots and the result is The Romance of American Communism...
...searching for a better balance between sight gags, one-liners, and developed routines. He has come close before--The Producers, his first film, is one of the funniest movies ever made, and Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were outrageous parodies of two moribund film genres. But his last film, Silent Movie, was a bomb, although it reflected a willingness to do the unconventional. Silent Movie relied too much on slapstick (what do you expect from a movie with no dialogue?) and as a result became quite tedious. Brooks learned from that experience, for High Anxiety has the most developed plot...