Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NIGHT MOVES ALMOST left town two days ago unnoticed. It ground through a week of general release in the suburbs, unheralded by advertising, overshadowed by Nashville and Jaws, slipping on the projector as Silent Night, Evil Night slid off, making way this week for Aloha, Bobby and Rose. Except for a last ditch run at the Charles, unmentioned in the newspapers. Arthur Penn's new movie came and went like a clerk and his briefcase on the subway...
Unmarked Grave. First a security man prodded him in the side with a sharpened stick. Then, as the prince straightened his body in response, the executioner's gold-handled sword flashed, and the condemned man's head rolled from his shoulders. The crowd, silent until that moment, broke into shouts of "Allahu akhbar [God is great]." For 15 minutes the prince's head was displayed on the tip of a spike for the crowd's inspection; eventually an ambulance collected it and the body for burial in an unmarked grave...
Robinson and his team will return to Egypt next month to complete the reconstruction of the final pages and explore the discovery site outside Nag Hammadi. The silent mountains there could well have more ancient gnosis to yield to modern scholars...
Other reasons for the silent exits are more self-serving. Dissidents do not prosper in Washington. The man who makes his opposition known quietly, then leaves without a fuss is likely to be rewarded with another high-level post later on. If he publicly tells why he is leaving, however, he is, the authors say, almost always left out in the cold thereafter. "Further prospects of service in the Executive Branch are out of the question. Appointments to the Judiciary are unlikely to be proffered. Election to Congress is virtually precluded...
They had been 8 and 9 when one war had begun. Children at little desks they cleared away for creative play time in elementary school. This fast had it come, they were here, another generation upon us. I was history to them already, silent, and invisible behind the pillar...