Word: voicelessness
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Whatever his motive, the results were positive both for his own reputation and for the morale of South Africa's voiceless millions. The white-supremacist regime of Hendrik Verwoerd had done what it could to limit Kennedy's impact. It imposed a five-year "ban" -social and political excommunication without stated cause or trial-on Ian Robertson, 21, head of the National Union of South African Students, who had first invited Kennedy to that country. It also barred foreign newsmen who wanted to accompany Kennedy on his four-day tour. The only government representatives he saw were policemen...
...statement given to the Press in New York City, May 16, Nhat Hanh said that he is not an official spokesman for the Vietnamese Buddhists, but rather he came here to communicate the agony of the "voiceless masses." Nhat Hanh continued, saying that at first his people only knew Americans as a generous people who had given a great deal of his country, but now the experts have been replaced by soldiers; "we do not think that these are the true Americans," he said...
...destiny was firmly fixed on an awful night long before, when stars fell on Alabama-in a huge, scarring meteoric shower. Alabamians still tell that legend on themselves-and in a curious way it explains much about Alabama as a state of deep superstitions, fierce prides, sudden violence and voiceless fears...
Daughter Kattrin is a war-victimized mute with a desperate love of children. In Brecht's mordant view, kindness is voiceless in the world. Kattrin performs the only noble and impassioned act in the play when she mounts a platform and beats out a drum tattoo warning a sleeping town of ambush. A single musket shot silences her. Zohra Lampert detonates this episode shatteringly after having made her Kattrin an intaglio of forlorn brooding poignance. As Anne Bancroft cradles her daughter in marble stillness, the scene has the desolating sadness of a Piet...
...done and seen not to be done." He recognizes confusedly that "in England, the ending of the war had come like waking from a bad dream; in defeated Germany, as the signal for deeper levels of nightmare." Society had been fragmented into "men living desperately incommunicado like men rendered voiceless by an intervening vacuum." In their nightmare, "these suffering people" saw devils and named them "Jews, Communists, Capitalists, Catholics, Cabbalists...