Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quieter moments have been few, around the House. So far, Eddie has proved more than equal to the many minor emergencies that beset Lowell. One not so minor crisis occurred when the Archbishop of Canterbury arrived on a visit and the usual House reception machinery broke down, leaving no one to receive him. Eddie stepped in and did the honors. After a successful visit he and the Archbishop were walking across the quad together. "And what branch of the University are you connected with?" queried the Archbishop. The question was not new to Eddie. "Maintenance," he replied...
...never get to the end of a bloke like Poussin"), but at night he is his own master, stays up until the late hours painting & repainting his personal phantom world. His fantastic landscapes have the same wonderful eeriness as Graham Sutherland's thorny abstractions, but they are quieter, as delicately brushed as fine Japanese watercolors. In each he takes the ordinary sights of rural England, twists and molds them into subtle generalizations on nature...
Since the war, the activities of the Fabian Society have been quieter. This was emphasized when the organization officially became known as the Harvard Fabian Society in January...
...such papers as the London Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Observer, or the Manchester Guardian, where U.S. coverage is quieter and more complete, Britons do get a much more rounded picture of the U.S. But even the Times, instead of trying to explain the problem of Communists in government, often brushes the whole matter off as "witch hunting" and a shrill campaign . . . against 'spies and saboteurs' who are widely imagined to be imperiling the security of the U.S." Added the chorus of criticisms of the U.S. are such anti-American weeklies as the New Statesman & Nation, which recently said...
...past six months to run the magazine." With the board lined up against them, Editors Chamberlain Davis La Follette also resigned. Then the directors present unanimously brought back Henry Hazlitt as top editor. As soon as Hazlitt assembles a new staff he expects to recreate a Freeman with a quieter voice. Said he: "I want to put out a journal of opinion which will represent the older liberalism and that puts emphasis i liberty of the individual . . . and conduct it with a certain authority." Ex-Editors Chamberlain, Davis and La Follette immediately began discussing starting their own new magazine...