Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a hardy few survive two-hour delays, so when Seaver resumed his warmups, the atmosphere had changed. Those of us who stood there with our faces pressed hard against the now-wet chain link fence were silent...
...Fritos. But near the wall, a young Boston father tells his rambunctious son, "Hush, Timmy--this is like a church." The visitors' processionals do seem to have a ritual, even liturgical quality. Going slowly down toward the vertex, looking at the names, they chat less and less, then fall silent where the names of the first men killed (July 1959) and the last (May 1975) appear. The talk begins again, softly, as they follow the path up out of the little valley of the shadow of death...
...students who coordinated the tabling, Jennifer Landeau '87 and Ashley C. Thompson '87, said they did so in response to the recent proliferation of campus "pro-life" activity, including the last month's screening of the anti abortion movie "Silent Scream...
Some victims groups have carried their activity into courtrooms, trying to apply silent pressure on judges and juries by their stony presence. One such organization is led by a Houston socialite, Phyllis Morrow, 42, wife of a wealthy oilman. Her interest began in 1980 after she and her husband were robbed of $500,000 worth of jewelry. Her group also rates judges, advises victims on dealing with police and courts, and lobbies for laws to aid victims. Since the Goetz case, Morrow claims, "every legislator seems to want on the bandwagon to support a victims bill of rights...
Helping the police with information, but not with physical force, is precisely the kind of cooperation law-enforcement officials most commend in citizens. One of the most successful techniques is the variously called Crime Stoppers or Silent Witness programs, in which TV and radio stations, as well as some newspapers, provide details...