Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Courageous Sergeant Matlovich has the silent good wishes of millions of us who are unable to fight, afraid to fight, or just too damn tired of fighting for our just liberation. I hope to see him on your cover again-as Man of the Year. "Man"' in every sense of the word...
...Hearst declined the favor. Referring to the family's publishing firm, she said with a smile, "We're in the business of harassing people for a living too." Her first reaction on hearing the news about her daughter: "I sat down in a chair and said a silent prayer of thanks. I'm just thankful to God that she's alive." Despite the harsh words Patty had uttered in the past, Mrs. Hearst expected that the reunion would go well. "I don't believe she has given up 19 years of our lives together...
...program on the tube. Viewers are asked to believe that a glum Jackie Cooper, who can scarcely work up the energy to articulate his lines, is an aggressive TV newsman. In the first hour he 1) rescued a child trapped on a cliff, 2) salvaged a broken-down silent-screen star, 3) rehabilitated a suicidal paraplegic ex-rodeo performer, 4) went to jail in defense of the newsman's right to protect his sources and 5) persuaded one of them to come forward and give evidence at a murder trial while 6) rescuing her from incipient alcoholism...
...unregistered voters of past elections have been Cambridge's liberal "silent majority," then the independents could face some losses this fall...
...ever portrayed so well the sometimes savage drama of life behind the damask draperies of Fifth Avenue and the wrought-iron gates of Newport. By the time of The House of Mirth in 1905, she was recognized as a major novelist and, as an aging Henry James grew silent, she took his place as the preeminent American writer, a position she held for nearly 25 years, until the eve of the Depression...