Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home, he manfully wages war not so much with the floundering Democrats as with a more dangerously hostile press, "which claimed it understood and spoke for the people better than he did himself." For years a critic of Nixonian hatchet politics, White has grown increasingly sympathetic to the now quieter Nixon style. Proudly and yet often painfully aware that he was "essentially alone" in everything he did, White writes, Nixon developed a remarkable "fatalism of outlook and a personal melancholy which added wisdom to his reflections...
...life to each student by a teacher. Contemplation of the mantra allows the user to enter the transcendental state, during which Geeslin says meditators appear to be sleeping but in fact remain acutely alert to the outside environment. "What occurs during meditation is that everyday levels of thought become quieter and quieter until the quietest level can be transcended. The quieting is accompanied by physical changes--the breathing is shallower, brain waves are altered, and the heart load changes," he says...
...25th Harvard Reunion. It is already five years just last week since Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the seamy basement of a Los Angeles Hotel. Yet the anger he glimpsed and started to give voice to in the last years of his life has survived him, quieter now, smoldering again instead of burning. The people whose cause he championed still live amid the rubble, but they have not forgotten him. And the rest of us, touched by his earnest struggle to bring coherence to the madness, sensing a growing bond of kinship with him as his anger surfaced...
...night stands a year. Though his voice was dubbed the "Million-Dollar Monotone" by critics, the debonair showman remained a starring attraction until the '50s when, with the advent of rock 'n' roll, he abandoned the big bands for smaller nightclub combos catering to quieter audiences...
...truth about this country is more conventionally got up, quieter, or more extraordinarily lunatic. Geoffrey Wolff