Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year, he opened himself to the questions and taunts of a largely hostile audience. Time and again, almost unfailingly, he put his inquisitors on the defensive with his lightning-like ripostes. Finally a student came up with a question that caught him off guard, and he was sheepishly silent for a few moments. "What's your weight, boy?" Mailer snapped. The student looked puzzled, but Mailer's next comment clarified his question. "You threw me a punch I couldn't return...
...relevant," though they hit upon every solid issue the American left has argued in the 20th century. They are worth reading because Lamont is authentic--he is there on the courtroom floor, on the picket line, at the teach-in sessions when his colleagues of the cloister are silent. Lamont fought Harding and isolationism from his typewriter as an editor of The Crimson, fought for the right to bring dissenting speakers such as Eugene V. Debs, William Z. Foster and Scott Nearing to Harvard as chairman of the Union Undergraduate Committee. And Lamont continued to take on the Goliaths...
...diary is never routine--entries are spliced over silent lapses, and days pinpointed by a single sentence. The moments Seferis collects reveal the twists of a private world where the work is writing. He makes the difficult transition from one world to the other with the "feeling that I am re-entering a house abandoned in haste many years ago, without anyone's having a chance even to empty the ashtrays...
Intolerance (1916). D.W. Griffith's silent epic...
There were odysseys in which the Sirens are silent. Without paper, he conceived stories the intricacy and strangeness of which might have earned him a nod of approval from Dickens, the Pentateuch and Tolstoy of England. Before paper his imagination withdrew like a snail whose horns had been touched...