Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easier to change policy and the economic system than to alter human consciousness." Russians, said Ehrenburg, who died in September, "have been unable to divest themselves of a sense of constriction, of fear, of casuistry, of survivals from the past." Today, most Russians long only for a quiet life, a little more freedom, a few more privileges, a bit more self-respect. Despite all the anniversary hoopla, the fund of enthusiasm produced by the revolution is almost bankrupt...
Despite his notoriety in white New Orleans, and despite his controversial platform, the campaign was relatively quiet. At this moment the white power structure is not threatened--after all, he placed eighth. But had Smith entered the runoff, "the big boys would have been after me," he says with not a little glee. "Then they'd red bait and they'd nigger bait as usual...
...closest race is being fought in the quiet enclaves along Brattle Street. Two CCA-endorsed candidates--Mrs. Wheeler and School committeewoman Barbara Ackermann -- are vying for support. Mrs. Wheeler has been on the Council since 1957, but the Smith-educated Mrs. Ackermann appears to have a good chance of cutting into her past support...
...indivduals as for epochs the process of aging is normally a quiet and gradual affair, but the realization of youth having passed comes often as not with a suddenness, even a shock. Most of us, I suspect, mark that moment well and often thereafter in idle passages find ourselves touching the wound it left. My moment, and that of many like me, came with the death of Kennedy, and along with the others, I knew it. About the third day of that long, terrible time Mary McGrory said to me, "We'll never laugh again." And I answered, "Heavens, Mary...
...walks through Harlem helped prevent riots last summer. Buckley wanted to know how this equipped him for the presidency: "Is the Secretary of State properly engaged in walking up and down the Biafran frontier, grinning and winking at the disputants? Would he then rush off to Wuhan, there to quiet the impulses of the Red Guards...