Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still celebrated - illicitly - by a few rebel priests, like Father Gommar De Pauw of Westbury, N.Y.) Some Catholics find the new rite too cluttered with movement, hymns and communal prayers. "I feel a little bit lost," says Mrs. Theodora Nardi, 53, of Manchester, N.H. "I miss the time for silent prayer. Now you jump and sing...
...token woman is a black Chicana fluent in Chinese who has borne 1.2 babies (not on the premises, no childcare provided) owns a PhD, will teach freshmen English for a decade and bleach your laundry with tears, silent as a china egg. Your department orders her from a taxidermist's catalog and she comes luxuriously stuffed with goosedown able to double as sleeping or punching bag. --From The Token Woman, by Marge Piercy
...page And render voices silent with each...
Somewhere in the middle of the dance the music stops. Upstage, three amorphous forms continue to ooze in silent motion. Downstage, one small body remains stranded, frozen in a single pool of light. In the center, a flood of darkness. Between the idea and the reality...The isolated dancer begins to beat her foot slowly against the ground. Between the conception and the creation...The beating comes louder then faster and faster. Between the desire and the spasm... Until suddenly, lifted by her own momentum, she rises...
Since the founding of the Union of Utrecht by William the Silent in the 16th century, The Netherlands has been "a republic under the House of Orange." Even though Parliament took over effective power in 1848, the monarchy has remained a unifying factor in a country that is divided almost equally between Catholics and Calvinists and politically split by 14 parties...