Word: taciturnity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shouting "Good Hammarskjold, good Abdel Nasser." After U.N.forces freed 120 political prisoners from Gaza's jail, thousands of Arabs paraded carrying such slogans as: "Welcome as guests but not rulers," and "We do not accept any rule except Egypt's." But the UNEF's taciturn commander, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, ordered his headquarters moved forward from Suez to Gaza and proclaimed: "Until further arrangements are made, the UNEF has assumed responsibility for civil affairs in the Gaza Strip...
...Menon's flow of words but a single nyet uttered by Russia's taciturn Arkady Sobolev called a halt to the U.N.'s efforts to mediate in Kashmir. By casting the Soviet Union's 79th *veto in the Security Council, Sobolev effectively killed a resolution, jointly sponsored by the U.S., Cuba. Britain and Australia, to send Council President Gunnar Jarring of Sweden to Kashmir as a step "toward the settlement of the dispute." The resolution did not mention plebiscite, but noted in passing that former U.N. resolutions calling for demilitarization and a plebiscite in Kashmir...
...excellent quality of the acting on the part of all the principal performers. Gary Cooper, in the part of the father, is not an actor noted for the range of emotions which he can project, but this time he has found a part which can exploit his taciturn talents. He manages to suggest the battle going on in his character's soul, and a suggestion is really all the script requires. Dorothy McGuire, as the mother, must, on the other hand, show such divergent feelings as straight-laced devotion to duty and strong love for her family. She does...
Most everybody proclaims taciturn Glenn a local hero except his wife (Jeanne Crain), who mutters darkly of Glenn's troubled past (seems his father was shot by a fast gun) and the evils of gunslinging. Next day Glenn offers up his weapon on the church altar, explaining that he must skip town because "trouble collects around a fast gun." Too late. Enter bellicose Brod, hankering to drill Glenn. As the congregation sings Holy, Holy, Holy, Glenn dutifully straps on his holster for the showdown. As Miss Crain mumbles after the fireworks, "I guess that takes care of everything...
Tough writers are seldom tough guys, but Alexander Fadeyev was an exception. His early novels are Russian-style westerns, full of galloping hooves and gun battles against terrible odds, simple taciturn heroes who figure that the only way to give an order is to snap yes or no. Fadeyev himself lived this kind of life as a Soviet guerrilla during the civil war, and he believed that if it was not yes it must be no. Later, when it became his job to ride herd on Soviet literature for Dictator Stalin, tough Fadeyev made many an author bite the Siberian...