Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Under Michael Langham's forceful and fluid direction, the play moves in cinematic takes. But it is the era of the silent movie, compacted of melodrama and soap opera. How can such things have scope and stature? Why do they work and become deeply moving onstage? One possible answer is that at crucial, tense, catastrophic or ecstatic moments in the lives of men and women, they do behave like characters in melodramas or soap operas...
Although conceding that "everybody is against crime," Nixon struck hard at his ideological opponents in Congress who, he said, were stalling his efforts to combat "permissiveness" and "crime." "It is time for the great Silent Majority of Americans to stand up and be counted," he said...
Buckley the candidate softly rakes "the voices of doubt and despair," claims to rap with the Silent Majority, curries the hardhat vote and?essential to his Nixon-Agnew support?promises to vote with Republicans in organizing the Senate...
...greats as Eddy Arnold or Johnny Cash. Yet his straightforward, unadorned singing style-customarily sure death in the quasi-Baroque world of rock-turns out to be just the thing for the classic country songs devoted to simple words, gentle irony and love gone haywire. In a song called Silent Homecoming, Ringo does emulate deep-throated Cash a bit too much. His baritone is occasionally too beery. But his cornhusky mastery of the album's title song ("I see me a man who's lonely/ Wants only to lose beaucoups of blues") more than makes...
COLUMBIA-RUTGERS: New York football observers were shocked this morning when Mayor Lindsay, an Ivy Leaguer and a New Yorker, endorsed the Rutgers football team. Lindsay said he could keep silent no longer. So now a prediction is tougher than ever. But on the other hand, this one's as easy to guess as the rest. The Lion...