Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naturally the most vociferous. "I'll fight to the death," proclaimed Missouri's Leonor Sullivan, the new chairman of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, who as chairman of Ways and Means is considered the single most powerful man in the House, kept silent publicly for the moment, but was expected to speak up-loudly-before the voting...
...would foment race prejudice among college students or that a majority of the students attending our meeting came to cheer on the white oppressor. OSTWS should remember that in addition to "Birth of a Nation" we announced a screening of "The Great Train Robbery." Both are very early silent American films. Each in its way is a landmark in the development of film-making; each represents prodigious advances in film technology, direction and cinematography. The subjects of the two films are entirely different, a fact which we feel minimizes the importance of "Nation's" racism in terms of our reason...
...Birth of a Nation," directed by pioneer silent-film maker D.W. Griffith, was released in 1915. It is generally considered a landmark film--it was the first to use moving cameras and night filming. It presents a militantly anti-black view of the South during Reconstruction
According to still another, Kennedy got out after running into Look and, fearful that Look was following, sent Mary Jo on alone in the car. The facts may well be far different from any of these theories. For five years, Kennedy kept silent, apparently hoping that the public memory of Chappaquiddick would fade...
...White House; when Martinez complained that the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist yielded nothing, Hunt replied, "Yes, I know, but they don't know it." Hunt may also have doublecrossed his Cuban underlings. Barker complains that Hunt persuaded the pair to remain silent before the grand jury, and then extracted a grant of immunity for himself by agreeing to come clean. Says Barker: "Hunt will have to live with his own problem. I feel sorry...