Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Passion for Sounds. At home Cowell now leads a life far quieter than in his keyboard-slamming "tone-cluster" days of the '20s and early '30s, when a New York newspaper sent a sportswriter to one of his piano recitals and featured it as a fight between "Kid Knabe and Battling Cowell." Apart from teaching stints at Columbia and the New School for Social Research, he spends most of his time in a peeling, starkly furnished yellow clapboard house in Shady, N.Y., surrounded by instruments that testify to his lifelong passion for sounds: Persian drums, Oriental flutes...
...down, with the honorable exception of De Gaulle ("one great soul"), the generals were "doddering numskulls." "cockroaches," "poltroons." They "had the instruments of victory in their hands. What nobody realized was this: they were longing to change their profession. They did not like war . . . Their real inclination was for quieter occupation: accountant, postmaster, colonial administrator . . . The damned scoundrels...
...summer of 1954 a committee under Utah's Republican Arthur Watkins met to determine whether Joe McCarthy should be censured. This time the hearings were quieter, and Joe had neither public microphone nor TV camera to amplify his techniques. Methodically the committee studied its evidence. In December the U.S. Senate took the rare and unusual step of condemning one of its members (67-22) on two counts: 1) abusing the subcommittee that investigated him in 1951-52, and 2) attacking the Watkins committee in a way that impaired the Senate's integrity and dignity...
...gravity-center train, New Haven President George Alpert last week savored the unaccustomed compliments of 225 guests, mostly newsmen, along for the ride. The Dan'l Webster, a nine-car, $1,500,000 train, powered by low-slung diesel locomotives fore and aft, was noticeably smoother and quieter than standard equipment though it cost only $1,650 per seat v. $2,850 for the conventional type. As the train from Boston rolled into the outskirts of Manhattan, it was right on time-in itself a subject for congratulations on the oft-late New Haven.* But suddenly the devil...
...real story of Clinton, Tenn. is not the acts of its headline-breeding minority, but the quieter efforts of its majority in behalf of law and tolerance (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.). In Clinton and the Law, over CBS, Edward R. Murrow's See It Now displayed for a nationwide TV audience this week some of the bad and a lot of the good face of Clinton: a stentorian basketball game in a sleek new gym, the nascent philosophy of young Football Captain Jerry Shattuck ("All through life you come up against things you don't like...