Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This didn't go over too well with the audience of captains, inspectors, and chiefs. They remained stonily silent as Kelling explained that he and Wilson had deliberately chosen a provocative phrase to stimulate discussion. I remember wondering if this was why people study for years, get PhD's and become instructors at Harvard--so they can tell cops to have their patrolmen go "kick...
...agreeably uncontentious manner, The Right Stuff offers an occasion for a re-revaluation of a figure recently much condemned, the traditional American male. The movie can be understood to revive that great figure of American myth, the job-and goal-oriented man, more strongly bonded to his companions in silent striving than he is to his wife and children, inarticulate not only about his fears and failings but about his strengths as well...
Space should be devoted to silent sufferers subjected to yet another crime, called mental cruelty, a kind of spiritual torture. One hears about husbands who exercise their macho attitudes without physically abusing their wives but who create Kafkaesque nightmares in their everyday lives. Cruelty between two partners is often too subtle to be snared in the nets of social and judicial justice...
Most of all, Mao is gone. It is as if the city had been sponged of him and his "personality cult." The giant 40-foot-high portrait still hangs above the vermilion Tiananmen. But he now rests silent under a scarlet coverlet in the colonnaded mausoleum that dominates the great square...
...circle, had died in January 1976. Twelve weeks later came the ceremonies of Qingming at which the Chinese honor their dead. Spontaneously, on April 1, thousands thronged Tiananmen Square to mourn him. The next day, more. Then again the following day and the day after, hundreds of thousands, in silent protest against the tyranny of the Gang of Four. Somehow Chou had come to be the symbol of the true faith of the original revolution. In July Chu Teh commander in chief of the revolution's armies, died. Then came the Tangshan earthquake ? and in Chinese folklore great earthquakes...