Mr. YOUNG: (Singing) Did he give me the gift of voice so some could silence me?

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No character emerges in fuller voice, for all his silence, than the novel's hero, Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch), son of a Yorkshire country gentleman, who clings stubbornly to old values as Tietjens saw the world, you didn't talk about your feelings or, for that matter, think about them.

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But if health care reform matters so much to young people and their voice is so crucial in the debate, why the silence?

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Such silence brings grants, protection, and government largess and the appearance of a voice in policy.

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