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...seems dismal now. That it is brown and dying; not the round, pink living thing it once would become; when pressed and bruised with kisses. It seems more desperate now. It's fullness never opens slightly, seducing the quietest breath of appreciation, or pain. It seems the dead, angry thing it is. The perpetual pout, not a sultry coyness, but the pout of dismissing the world...
Though the campus at Durham was perhaps the quietest in the nation during the tense years from 1968 to 1970, Loeb manufactured a sense of crisis over alleged radicalism on the campus...
...Dick Cavett Show on a color television. But whatever we have been doing, it has been personal and private, and there has been time to think. And most of us have realized that yes, the smug predictions are probably true, and the wave has crested. This is the quietest year at Harvard since Robert McNamara came to town in 1967, and Nathan Pusey's values have been reasserting themselves...
Contemplation and Search. The freshmen who are now becoming sophomores are described by academics all over the country as the quietest class in years. In part, they have seen it all in high school; in part, the economic downturn pressures them to do well academically in order to justify their family's investment and later get a good job. Some of today's freshmen seem less susceptible to peer-group pressure than their predecessors...
Jones' style on the ice reflects his mild personality. "I'm probably the quietest guy on the team," he said. "I never say much in the locker room, but it doesn't take yelling and screaming to get me psyched...