Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merrill's Marauders is much quieter than the usual war picture. Rifle fire has the deceptively dull sound of rifle fire. Plans are made in everyday voices, neither out of breath with excitement nor too studiously underkeyed. Director Samuel Fuller, who served in the infantry during World War II, seems determined to make the point that men at war-particularly when their war is one of close-in jungle combat unsupported by artillery-fight and die quietly...
...will not, he insists, be a history of anarchism; if his past works are any guide it will most likely be a graceful, analytic but highly sympathetic discussion of the ideas of individuals and of the times and places they were used. Joll often seems very like a quieter, more diffident, more wistful version of a man he describes with great admiration. Sir Isaiah Berlin (who will, incidentally, stay at Harvard this Fall) has "had a vast influence on everyone of my generation;" he is "an ebullient figure, with an endless flow of ideas and speculations and paradoxes; an excellent...
Saroyan wrote this sort of ragpickers' polka, and so, in a quieter tempo, does Novelist Alma Stone. Her poor are the people of Manhattan's upper Broadway-watery-eyed men propped on their elbows in old. moneylosing bars, solitary old ladies who roost on park benches and share their tuna sandwiches with cats...
...role in the Hiss case marked him; those who refused to believe in Hiss' guilt disliked him for convincing them they were wrong. What he does not realise is that his theory is only partly right. They dislike him largely because they do not suppose his nicer suits, quieter ties, and speeches about diplomacy rather than subversives to be evidences that he has changed very much...
Ever since former Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov left Washington in early January, the taciturn Soviet diplomatic delegation has been even quieter than usual under the interim command of Minister Counselor Mikhail Smirnovsky. While it waited for Dobrynin's arrival, official Washington had had time to ponder his credentials. A skilled diplomat and a top Soviet expert on the U.S., Dobrynin served at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1952 to 1955. Later, at the U.N., he was Dag Hammarskjold's Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs. He attended the Geneva summit conference...