Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sanh is Colonel David E. Lownds, 47, the mustachioed commander of the 26th Marine Regiment, who oversees the defense of the base from an underground bunker left over by its original French occupants. Sitting in a faded lawn chair, he seldom rests, night or day. He keeps constant watch over the nerve center, a labyrinth of whitewashed rooms lit by bare bulbs and bustling with staff officers and enlisted aides. Is he worried about the huge enemy concentration surrounding him? "Hell, no," says Lownds. "I've got Marines. My confidence isn't shaken a bit." He fully recognizes...
...entire situation parallels that of an army cook, most of whose customers liked mustard in their pea soup while a sizeable minority liked it without. There was constant feuding in the troop, because the unimaginative cook had resolved the issue by cooking the soup to suit the majority's wishes. Dissent grew and soldiers tried to change companies, until finally someone suggested that the soup be cooked plain and that little dishes of mustard be placed on the tables so that the men could make their own choice...
Colleagues say that it was a great comfort to know that Professor Owen was here; students remember his constant efforts to build their self-confidence. His own words on the once-new House system gives a better glimpse of his nature: "One could almost imagine tutors being assigned to tuck the boys in at ten o'clock. (In a Master's weaker moments he sometimes regrets that this spectre never materialized...
LEON Kirchner is the Renaissance man of the Music Department. Pianist, teacher, composer, conductor, he seems to be in constant metamorphosis. As contemporary composer, Kirchner has been awarded a Pulitzer prize for a work that combines sounds produced electronically with those of a string quartet; as teacher of courses for music concentrators, he is tireless in his efforts to spread the gospel according to Schoenberg. Yet Friday night there he was, conducting the Cantata Singers and an ensemble of Boston-area professionals in a program consisting solely of music by J. S. Bach...
...Americans are not the impulsive, brash upstarts that they themselves and a good deal of the world have taken them to be, just who are they? A notably patient people, Heren believes, infinitely capable of compromise, whose society is less the product of revolutionary fiat than of constant evolutionary adjustments over the years...