Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also convinced of the necessity of combining various and impressive public campaigns with an energetic and thoughtful quiet diplomacy. The exchange of political prisoners can be an important area of action for quiet diplomacy. I do not accept the contentions against such exchanges that have been expressed in the West. In some cases, this is practically the only realistic way to tear people out of the hell of the camps and prisons. Even if this method can help only a very few people, still, it is a breakthrough, and it assuredly does not harm those who remain behind...
...guard captain sets out to break Chilly's power in order to establish his own rule. In the conflict, both Gasolino and a con named Juleson (John Heard) die as Chilly struggles to hang on. Juleson's characterization is interesting: he is a quiet, fairly bright middle-class wife killer who doesn't fit in the underclass prison society. One of the better scenes takes place in a group therapy session, in which the other cons (most of them actually inmates at the Rockview State Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, where the film was shot) goad Juleson into...
History thus far has played a sort of perverse trick on Jimmy Carter. The long string of serious problems, while not calamitous enough to thrust him into a dramatic posture, has nevertheless deprived him of the kind of quiet era of national relaxation over which Dwight Eisenhower governed so benevolently. Carter is a Democratic President assigned by the times to preside not over the sharing of wealth and prosperity, but over the setting of limits. In international affairs, he is forced to accept responsibility for events beyond Washington's control...
...liberals charged that a campaign was afoot to "betray" Medellin. Brazil's bishops took the lead in attacking the document; a new, somewhat less conservative version was subsequently prepared. The Brazilians also rebuffed two top officials of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission who made a quiet trip to persuade them to mute political statements at CELAM...
...know what you are. Your wife knows what you are. Your kids know what you are . . ." But how far can he push it? Collins goes to the man's house. The TV is blaring, Merv Griffith is ranting about Jacqueline Susanne, a great artist. He wanders through the suspiciously quiet house--a prefab chalet sitting in Vancouver. Can he collect? How much is all this hype worth? How far are you willing to push...