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Another wave of applause carried Bond to the podium. Pulling a folded manuscript from his pocket, he casually looked out over the audience and remarked, in what sounded like a whisper, "Well, that's the obituary...now for the post mortem." The audience could relax now--Bond had acknowledged their presence...

Author: By Charles J. Hamilton jr., | Title: Julian Bond | 10/31/1968 | See Source »

...George Wallace says the things we Americans only whisper to each other in the privacy of our homes. Now we can have them said for us. It is too bad that we are so afraid to let ourselves be heard by those who run our lives and our country. Maybe in the privacy of the voting booth, Americans will tell them exactly what we think of big business and big Government banded together to keep the little man down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...David nevertheless make a wicked entrance in the proceedings now on display at the Colonial. Each micro-second of music has the Bacharach-David signature: a souped-up piano, an unseen chorus blowing like the wind over solos and ensemble numbers alike, tunes that demand alternately a whisper and a belt, and lyrics that stick so close to life in its physical and emotional details as to leave no room either for clever allusions or technical bravado. The long and the short of it is that they're new (at least in the romantic world of Broadway success stories where...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Promises, Promises | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

Some composers challenge posterity with a roar. Others woo it with seductive languor or graceful wit. Austrian Composer Anton Webern conjured it with a whisper. A shy, intense man who physically shrank from noise, he wrote spare, slight pieces filled with directions like "scarcely audible" and "dying away." Such was the understated economy of his scores that his life's work amounts to a bare three hours of playing time. Nearly all of his compositions take less than ten minutes to perform. He turned out works containing as much silence as music, and that was how an indifferent world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Pianissimo Prophet | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Rustle of sedge whisper midst the wilderness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

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