Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manufacturers have cast their eyes-and their production lines -as far as Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. Now they have begun to look closer to home. Almost unnoticed, the dusty, teeming, and often decrepit towns just south of the 2,000-mile U.S.Mexican border are undergoing the quiet beginnings of what one U.S. textile maker says could be "a massive industrial program...
...path. I was happy, because I myself have gone through a long and painful inner labour. I know that these pains and sufferings are the best I have experienced so far in my life and that they must have their reward, if not in the soothing quiet of faith, then at least in the awareness of the price I paid for them. The theory that God's Grace descends upon one, in the English clubs or in an assembly of stockbrokers, I always considered not only stupid, but also immoral...
Throughout the South, the quiet campuses of Negro colleges are smoldering with the unrest and resentments of an unquiet generation. One night last week, Houston's Texas Southern University, which is 95% Negro, erupted into a campus-style Watts. By morning, 488 students were arrested, one student and two policemen were wounded and a rookie cop was dead...
...their triumph. At 65, Lindbergh may find the 25-year-old boy as awkwardly remote as would any other aging hero facing his youth. Yet it is significant that he was able to move on to do other things, live other lives-to be active, useful and himself. The quiet foreground formed by his recent years renders the memory all the brighter: the memory of the youth with the world's imagination in his hands, showing what man is and can become...
Friday's concert in the Kirkland House JCR was an example of the quiet, unsung side of Cambridge musical life. There couldn't have been more than 25 people in the audience; nevertheless, Joan Fuerstman (mezzosoprano), Patricia More head (oboe), and Philip More head (piano) provided an evening's entertainment that was totally enjoyable and had all the virtues that more ambitious musical efforts here often lack: modesty, musicality, and ingenuity...