Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, Reagan should have refused to debate. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and leave no doubt...
...recent Saturday evening, the lines disappeared, the freak-show hosts fell silent, and the roller-coasters seemed almost to stop...
...centuries the Roman Catholic Mass, the church's central act of worship, was celebrated by a priest reciting Latin prayers, facing the altar as the laity behind him provided a devout but silent background. In 1963 the Second Vatican Council, seeking to give the laity a greater role in the liturgy, authorized a sweeping reform of worship that included prayers in the vernacular and a rite in which the priest faced his congregation. For many conservatives, most notably the dissident French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the new Mass, even though it can be said in Latin, became a rallying point...
...Soviet tanks finally invaded, the ailing Seifert angrily hobbled to the Czech Writers' Union and got himself elected chairman so that he could take part in whatever resistance was to be offered. He helped organize the major protest declaration known as Charter 77. "If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver," Seifert declared. "If a writer is silent, he is lying...
...tempered by his longing for concision and grace. Those who imagine that he just sat down in cornfields and let the landscape write itself through him are refuted by the actual sequence of his drawings. Some of his most vivid and impassioned-looking sketches-the coiling, toppling surf, the silent explosion of wheat stocks, the sun grinding in the speckled sky above the road to Tarascon-are in fact copies he made after his own paintings and sent to his fellow painters Emile Bernard and John Russell to show them what he had been up to. As a draughts...