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...course's first session--which packed Sanders Theatre--Lee's delivery was low-key, and he remained poised despite a barrage of Lampoon jokes and a battery of questions from the overflowing crowd...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: gates rebuilds afro-am | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

Pierce describes his friend as "very open, friendly, sort of low-key in manner, though not at all low-key in effect...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lawrence Buell Eases Into New Deanship | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...that's true, then the low-key English scholar has an important role to fill--and Fisher says his reflectiveness and fairness will serve him well. "He has experience, he has energy, he has thoughtfulness that will be respected," Fisher says. "This is a real job, as opposed to a post. There's something to be done there...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lawrence Buell Eases Into New Deanship | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

Wofford, 66, is so low-key, he doesn't wear studs on his tuxedo. When he announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat opened when Sen. John F. Heinz '63 suddenly died last May, the Republicans were overjoyed...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kennedy School Class Day Speaker: U.S. Senator Harris L. Wofford | 6/3/1992 | See Source »

...LIEUTENANTS The top members of Perot's team have at least three things in common: they are not ideologues, they have never belonged to the East Coast order of political druids who climb onto campaigns and television talk shows, and they have each achieved great success with a low-key, unassuming intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot's Lieutenants | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

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