Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After years of quiet existence, a group of Black faculty and administrators became suddenly aggressive this year, focussing a harsh spotlight on Harvard's minority hiring record. And while the activists have taken care to stress the cooperative facets of their push for affirmative action, the stridency of their statements this year has betrayed a certain impatience with some of their official colleagues...
Sociology Professor Nathan Glazer echoes this point. "This seems to be a very quiet political year for the Harvard faculty," he contends. As to why professors have become less involved, Glazer speculates. "The issues are not covering the major points of interest of the faculty. Jackson is clearly a race candidate, so there's a problem there. Mondale is close to the liberal tradition but lacking in glamor...
...rules which did not seem particularly difficult--certainly not oppressive, except for the highly sophisticated. We signed in and out if we were out after 10 p.m. We acknowledged Cambridge street crime and did not walk around alone at night if at all possible Corridors had to be quiet after 10--some people had record players but not all. WHRB's classical music was very popular, as was classical music in general. The smoker always had someone willing to talk for a while. The dorms each had a big study room with big tables good for the stacks of index...
After the anticipation of the pre-invasion weeks, the great battle "seemed almost anticlimactic," recalls Kathleen Frost, who as a clerk typed up some of the D-day orders. Today the beaches, lanes and fields of southern England are quiet again, ever-present plaques the prime mementos of the frenzied activity of 40 years ago. American ex-G.I.s sometimes visit, walk those familiar streets, stay the night. But the atmosphere cannot be recreated: the girls, the buddies, the excitement, all are gone. The old soldiers take solace in memory, and in the wonderful glow of victory...
...midst of this emotional confusion, one quiet man who has yet to speak gently, slowly arises to address this embittered assembly of ideas...