Word: silents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...difficulty in attaching yourself wholly to the subject of prayer. I say 'wholly,' for you feel truly 're-collected,' gathered together." With the body perfectly relaxed and still and the mind quiet, "from the depths of the soul there rises up towards God a silent concert, as it were, of praise and adoration...
Late last week De Gaulle cracked down on this insubordination, ordered his Ministers to keep silent about the negotiations. "Over the Algerian affair," said De Gaulle icily, "the people of Metropolitan France are entirely behind...
...sculptors from 33 nations exhibited some 3,000 works whose overall impression was so weird that the experts, almost to a man, rose in revolt. "It is not the world of art.'' said Turin's outraged La Stampa, "but a world of impenetrable moors and silent, sterile landscapes." Added respected Critic Leonardo Borghese, writing in Milan's Carriere della Sera: "Ridiculous, sad, terrible. So abstract are all these works that they are beyond critical judgment...
...vises to turn out large, dugout slabs of metal that look like negative prints of abstract bas-reliefs. Two almost identical pieces bear the titles Colloquy with Wife and Colloquy without Wife; the other nine Consagras are also called Colloquies. (Those who know him say that Consagra is a silent...
...Harry Brown (362 pp.; Knopf; $4.50), is based on an intriguing idea. The author evidently meant to rescue the cowhand from the raunchy cliché of sex and six-shot violence, hoping to demonstrate that the Western hero can hold his own with the Homeric. Arch Eastmere, the tall, silent type home from a couple of seasons of dark adventure in the South, is a mean hand with a hair-trigger .45. He makes a natural enough Achilles. Percy Randal, the grey old rancher, proud of his sons and his stock-rich kingdom, is clearly Priam. Golden-haired Ellen Lacy...