Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council members chose to discuss the decision, which only a handful of members voted against. Council policy strongly discourages members from disclosing details of discussion, and at last week's meeting, several members--including Rosovsky--urged their colleagues to be silent until the statement against harassment is complete...
...Pope's supporters maintain that it would be unthinkable for John Paul not to speak his mind on abortion in a country that is 95% Roman Catholic. Asks Giulio Andreotti, a sympathetic Christian Democrat and former Prime Minister: "How can one ask the Pope to be silent when one of the most delicate points of moral theology is at stake...
Miniature stereo tape players tune up a silent revolution...
...much to hope that the invention will offset "the box"-the 20-lb. chromed stereo radio that thickens the air of so many American cities with noise pollution. But the mini-stereo makes possible a silent revolution indoors. Denis Ilkovics, a Belgian tourist, bought one in New York for his 13-year-old daughter. "I hope she'll use it instead of those loudspeakers," he sighed...
...Fifth Amendment allows citizens to remain silent. But it looks bad. Emanations of a man's guilt, as Freud once put it, "ooze from all his pores." Even the hard, grim stonewall of the Nixon White House eventually crumbled. Richard Nixon, in fact, is a fascinating case study in the psychology of confession. The "Papyrus of Nu" from the 18th dynasty of Egypt records what scholars have come to call the negative confessions. Therein the Egyptian advises the gods of all the crimes he has not committed during his life ("I have not polluted myself... I have not carried...