Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the audience are under an obligation to comply with a general standard of civility. This means that any registration of dissent that materially interferes with the speaker's right to proceed is a punishable offense. Of course a member of the audience may protest in a silent, symbolic fashion, for example, by wearing a black arm band. More active forms of protest may be tolerated such as briefly booing, clapping hands, or heckling. But any disruptive activity must stop when the chair or an appropriate university official requests silence. Failure to quit in response to a reasonable request...
Some of the material collected by the FBI was as sensational as it was spurious. It included reports that gamblers were paying off a Southern Senator; that three Senators were silent partners in a vending-machine firm that was linked with organized crime; that an Eastern Congressman had paid $40,000 to extortionists who were preying on homosexuals; that the sometime boy friend of a past President's daughter was a homosexual. Other files contained rumors about the reputed affairs of John and Robert Kennedy, of Eleanor Roosevelt, and of Richard Nixon, who was improbably said to have...
...then Ford strode into the Oval Office to sign the very proclamation, to increase the oil-import fees, that the Governors had opposed. He made his short statement somberly, scribbled his lefthanded signature, then, looking up at the silent gallery of aides, newsmen and photographers, chuckled: "I don't see anybody clamoring for extra pens...
...Gide-Paul Valery letters: "Letters are most alive when freshly delivered in the sender's handwriting, something perishes when they are typed, more when they are printed, most of all when they are translated. Finally we are left with a well-pressed flower from the original blossom, a silent film of a lifelong tennis match without the sound of the rallies, the oaths and the endearments...
...Seven Days of Creation is another example of the human spirit speaking out when silence is prudent. Yet it is demeaning to praise something not because it is well done but because it was done at all. The truth is the novel reads like English subtitles to an epic silent film, always flickering just beyond its grasp. "Paul Gray