Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running again for chairman, and no one anywhere in the present eschalons seems ready, willing or able to fill the formidable void this month's elections will bring. As SNCC's resources and manpower dwindle, the sounds of a new student activism are just beginning on hitherto quiet Southern Negro campuses. It was this kind of activism that SNCC spent the last year trying to capture and make its own. For SNCC this activism may have some too late. If so, this month's elections may be SNCC's last...
...gives motion to ceremonies which I imagine would be otherwise tedious to Occidentals. In fact, it is chiefly through the visual manipulations that the movie is comprehensible to Westerners. A few scenes, shot by the walls of the palace or on its roof, recall the periods of magical quiet in the courtyard episodes in Rasho Mon, and it is at these times that the film seems most strange and foreign...
...assailant reportedly seized her from behind, wrestled her to the ground and threatened to kill her. The girl screamed loudly despite the attacker's commands that she keep quiet, and he fled...
...tightly packed; its textures are brilliant and its technical demands high. After a slow and baffling opening it is consistently fast-moving. Street handled all the technical problems of the work with complete ease, and attained a more brilliant tone than before. What had been a solemn and quiet recital became at the end a passionate one as well...
Critics of the University's investment philosophy have grown relatively quiet and Bennett--like his predecessor Cabot--has been an extremely successful Treasurer. Taking his role as trustee of Harvard's 300-year-old endowment seriously--"I've got to produce or they'll get a new Treasurer"--he has helped spiral the fund to four times what it was just 20 years ago. Much of the increase was caused by a rising stock market that most sharply raises the value of the 60 per cent of the billion now invested in common stock...