Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME Correspondent Ken Danforth interviewed Calley before the Army announced that the lieutenant would be court-martialed on charges of premeditated murder. Danforth saw him again at Fort Benning last week, but this time was not allowed to speak to him. "He could communicate only with a gesture of recognition," Danforth reports. "He shuffled papers nervously, trying to look busy at his practically empty desk. Under the circumstances, he seemed reasonably cheerful." Calley is attached to the staff of the deputy post commander, Colonel Talton Long, designing plans for the colonel's parking lot and working on an infantry museum...
...speak of freedom, but only of external freedom. You say nothing of inner freedom. To have to struggle against the KGB is a terrible thing, but what, in effect, threatened a Russian writer if, before his first visit abroad, he had refused to collaborate with the KGB? The writer would not have gone abroad but he would have remained an honest man. In refusing to collaborate, he would have lost a part, perhaps a considerable part, of his external freedom, but would have achieved greater inner freedom...
...when Raff was 13, Papa Minichiello moved his family back to the U.S. and settled on a farm outside Seattle, where the old man had relatives. The abrupt transition was traumatic for Raff. He could neither speak nor read English. Classes at Foster High School became a routine torture; he fell hopelessly behind and, without his father's knowledge, regularly played hooky...
Soviet newspapers almost never mention the acts of protest against government policy that have become commonplace in Russia during the past few years. Scarcely ever do they speak of the arrests and other reprisals against dissenters that are now taking place with increasing frequency in the Soviet Union...
Blythe lets the people of the village speak for themselves. The 50 presented (verbatim, we are assured, although their extraordinary eloquence sometimes suggests the author possesses a magic tape recorder) range from an 82-year-old illiterate recluse to a pair of teen-age buddies, one a forge apprentice, the other a farm worker. All are brilliantly individualized. Not a mute inglorious Milton or a Cold Comfort Farm codger...