Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disservice. Nixon's first aim in making the speech was to quiet criticism of the military. In that, he obviously failed. A few of his own staff admitted privately afterward that some of Nixon's language was unfortunate. But he was concerned that if this criticism continues, the U.S military in a few years may become as weak as was the pre-World War II peacetime Army. While that seems unlikely, the President at least put himself and his Administration on the record. Finally, looking abroad, Nixon wanted to convince Hanoi, Peking, Moscow and the Viet Cong that...
Under normal circumstances, one liberates oneself through quiet thought or tremendous internal crises. Loud acid rock may help some people, it may hinder others...
Describing the toppling of the ivory-tower concept, Pusey alluded to a 1957 Commencement speech by art historian Erwin Panofsky. Panofsky had said that the university should be a "quiet, detached place devoted primarily to study and contemplation," where scholars could see things that those closer to the action could...
...visitors who come to the gallery, he passes out small square blocks of white plaster with a carnation embedded in each. Despite only two guarded references in the censored Greek press, Athenians have made their way to the gallery in droves. They come in twos and threes, solemn, quiet, and most make their comments in whispers. But a few have been more outspoken. Said one young man: "The wire will be snapped off, the plaster will break, and the carnation will give off its perfume again." Added a university professor, who has recently been dismissed from his post...
...quest to recapture the exhiliaration of the original experience. But sudden setbacks perplex him: "Last night the little girl walked in and handed me my notice. They voted me out of her league and I'm sorry. I'm embarrassed."His boyishly defiant recovery retains a quality of quiet longing: "So I'm a gonna join the cowboys and shoot me some outlaws (it's something to do since I'm out here anyway) but quit it all, give it all up, if the little girl could...