Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...locker room was silent. The players hadn't undressed and they were slumped on benches...
...clear that the University's plan was to spirit him out the back doors of Science Center D in the same way that he was brought in, we acted to block the back doors peacefully and nonviolently "only so that he will leave by the front doors." We remained silent throughout this action and made no attempt to rush the podium or obstruct passage through the lobby doors; our intent was to ensure his eventual exit through the lobby and to demonstrate peacefully and silently our opposition to the system of apartheid which Kent-Brown was defending. We never considered...
...Admiral John Poindexter and his deputy, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But the two have stubbornly refused to discuss their roles in the weapons sales to Iran and the secret funding of the Nicaraguan contras, invoking their Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Last week the arrangements for forcing the silent partners to talk led to a clash between the Senate Select Committee and Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh...
...education has detached itself from physical moorings, set adrift in disembodied lecturing voices and reams of silent pages. I miss construction paper and scissors; science fair projects and fieldtrips. Those things kept my senses alive; involved my body in the invisible struggle of 11-year-old neurons...
Every generation has its crisis. In the 1940's it was World War II--the senseless brutality of Nazism and the deaths of innocent millions; in the 60s, Vietnam, a trauma from which we have yet to completely recover. Today, however, we face a more cunning, fatal foe, a silent malaise that strikes our very souls. I am talking, of course, of the crisis of post-modernism...