Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in New York City and schooled in France and Britain, Walters spent 35 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a lieutenant general in 1976. But he is remembered from those days less as a soldier than as a skilled specialist in what he calls "silent missions," a phrase he used as the title of his 1978 autobiography. Kissinger remembers Walters as a consummate translator and "a great actor able to render not only the words but the intonation and attitude of the speaker." If there was anything Walters enjoyed more than "imitating the men for whom...
...wind, little would be risked by letting him bellow without notice. But he has accomplices in tens of thousands of secret haters who are at least as dangerous as their hero because they are anonymous. The press may or may not "create" Farrakhan, but it does not create the silent haters. If everyone turned his face away from Farrakhan or those like him, how would people know the extent of his supporters, or their own peril...
...said he and the minister were "poles apart." Before Farrakhan was to speak this week in Madison Square Garden, a coalition of the city's black and Jewish leaders denounced him. Said black City Clerk David Dinkins: "When (Farrakhan's) opinions express racial prejudice and bigotry, we cannot be silent, for in this climate, silence can often suggest assent...
...Corps came of age in the '60s. Richard Gougeon served as a maintenance crewman on an admiral's plane during the Viet Nam War. Alex Ghiselin attended Dartmouth, worked for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign and later as a reporter for the Boston Globe. Ned Krutsky is a strong, silent type who got his education at a small Quaker college and a house in Haight-Ashbury. Jim Locke, son of a lawyer and a college dropout, built his first house from a "hippy-dippy how-to-do-it book...
...flattering to Point Sal Road, the main street. Just off Point Sal stands a TV satellite dish nearly as big as its owners' trailer home. On the lot next door, a slack-bellied black horse eats greens. Early on a weekday afternoon, Casmalia is quiet but not silent: somewhere chickens crow, a toddler yelps, and Linda Ronstadt sings. "A lot of people don't like a town like this," says Phyllis Vaniter, "but we do." They may like it, but they hate the smell. During the past year, FOR SALE signs have appeared up and down Point...