Word: silents
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Members of the "silent generation," as they have been termed, cared little about domestic events and even less about the international scene. This was the Eisenhower era--the nation was prosperous and free from war--and these Americans felt secure. They were secure...
Along with Rick Redfern and Joanie Caucus, little Timmy, a twelve-minute-old embryo, is a character in a recent Doonesbury comic series. The sequence, entitled Silent Scream II: The Prequel, pokes fun at the recent antiabortion documentary Silent Scream. But readers of the 835 newspapers in which Garry Trudeau's comic strip appears will never meet little Timmy. Last week Trudeau withdrew the six strips after discussions with his distributor, Universal Press Syndicate. "We thought the sequence was done well," said Lee Salem, editorial director of Universal. "But we finally decided that the whole question of abortion...
DIED. Leatrice Joy, 91, dimpled screen star of the silent era, who played in more than 50 pre-talkie movies, most often as a mannishly tailored career woman or a sophisticated society girl in such films as Cecil B. DeMille's Saturday Night and Manslaughter (both 1922), and in his original The Ten Commandments (1923); in the Bronx, N.Y. She was the second wife of the silents' "Great Lover," John Gilbert, from 1922 to '24, and bore him a daughter...
This passionate epistle to President Reagan is one of some 20,000 letters and testimonies collected by a coalition of pro-choice organizations to launch a yearlong campaign titled "Abortion Rights: Silent No More." The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) led groups like Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, and Catholics for a Free Choice in the campaign, which is designed to counter what they see as the growing tendency of antiabortion advocates to dominate the public debate...
...Silent No More crusade is coming on the heels of a well-publicized pro- life campaign last winter. In January, 70,000 antiabortion demonstrators took part in a March for Life in Washington, as they have done on each anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and were addressed by Reagan. His message: "These days, as never before, the momentum is with us." A graphic film that shows ultrasound images of a fetus being aborted, The Silent Scream, has received wide play and inflamed antiabortion passions, even though a number of medical authorities have denounced it as a distortion. "We are responding...