Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the use of the word "democracy" in the draft statement was cause for contention. As one high-level Italian Communist explained to TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel: "How could [Italian Party Chief] Enrico Berlinguer sign a statement on democracy that [Czechoslovak President] Gustav Husak could also sign?" The red-leather-bound final declaration, placed before each delegate at the opening of the two-day conference, affirmed the "complete independence" of each party "in accordance with the socio-economic conditions and specific national features prevailing in the country concerned...
...killing, but to save the world, to kill the good as well as the bad, to kill." The dark side of religious conviction can be a violent intractability, an avenging angel's note of retribution. As Martin Luther wrote, "He who will not hear God's word when it is spoken with kindness must listen to the headsman when he comes with his ax." Religion can provide a warmth of certitude and belonging. When its energy is turned outward, it may express itself in acts of mercy and even saintliness. But piety can also be lethal when directed...
...really silent. There is music in Silent Movie, stray sound effects, and some title cards-just like in the days before Vitaphone-but no one utters a single word. Well, somebody does pronounce aloud one tiny monosyllable, but let no one step on a laugh by revealing either the word or the perpetrator. Just one caution: people may be laughing so hard all around you that, to hear the word, close attention will have to be paid. Silent Movie is brassy, incautious, funny without mercy. For laughter, Brooks gives no quarter, and he disdains the small change. As ever...
...issues other than inflation, the leaders dealt mainly in even vaguer generalities, especially in the final 1,700-word declaration. Though energy was discussed intensely for an hour, the final document included only one sentence on the subject. "We did not want the one countries to think we were ganging up on them," explained one U.S. official. Similarly, in referring to trade problems between the developed and underdeveloped worlds, the leaders expressed themselves only in platitudes. They did, however, reaffirm their determination to complete by the close of 1977 the multilateral trade negotiations, now under way in Geneva, that...
...Duck Variations, a bright young playwright, David Mamet, 28, displays the Pinter trait of wearing word masks to shield feelings and of defying communication in the act of communicating...