Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hailing themselves as "the silent majority," the demonstrators included blue-collar workers-utility employees, electricians, plumbers-and their families from throughout the Northeast. Some had spent up to twelve hours in chartered buses to attend the rally. They were greeted by New Hampshire's Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., who called them "beautiful" compared with "what I saw the first of May." The protest, organized by a pro-Seabrook group named the New Hampshire Voice of Energy, may be only the first in behalf of the facility. Vowed Daniel Tenchara, a 41-year-old pipefitter from Westport, Mass...
Closer to home, Beth Soll and Company will perform "Clearfield," a silent dance opera that was presented earlier this spring at the Institute for Contemporary Dance, in the Agassiz House living room on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. It's free, and good, so get three early...
...Park did deal with it, not with pen or mouth but with performance, and his silent, business-like approach to off-season criticism was rousingly successful. Park truly "did his job" as he had always done it at Harvard; emphasizing speed, pitching and defense, and seasoning it with his natural enthusiasm. In his wake he left many embarassed critics as Harvard baseball returned to its accustomed spot in the limelight from a one-year sabbatical. As Park himself summed up the past spring: "In just one year we came right back to where we were in 1975. It's gonna...
...ideal in life is to create a "temple of beauty" at Broadlawns, his weekend estate. Clara, his unloved but valuable because Protestant wife, is "the centerpiece of his collection, the beautiful woman to whom the beautiful porcelains, the ivories and jades, the medieval tapestries and stained glass paid silent tribute," the "priestess for the shrine" in the suburbs...
...think it is apparent that the Silent Majority is no longer silent. The hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers has just been taken out of mothballs. Charity toward people, yes; but tolerance toward...