Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people - Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., whose intimate revelations of the Kennedy years had already caused their own furor. So many people were getting into the dispute, in fact, that Lyndon Johnson, who is unfairly treated in the book, seemed the very model of decorum; he kept quiet himself and ordered his staff to stay totally out of the controversy...
...doom criers of the 1950s who warned that the next generation would turn out spineless and grey-flannel-souled. Henry David Thoreau would have felt at home with the young of the 60's, they are as appalled as he was at the thought of leading "lives of quiet desperation." In deed, for the future, the generation now in command can take solace from its offspring's determination to do better...
...anniversary of the country's conversion to Christianity, was as much a quarrel as it was a celebration. The country's Communist leaders were indefatigable in their search for ways to foul up the festivities. And now, even after the millennium has come to a quiet end, the squabble between church and state is as noisy as ever. Last week adamant Arch bishop Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski was once again at loggerheads with the tough secular party boss, Wladyslaw Gomulka. This time the issue was state regulation of seminaries...
...King's closest advisors. Some observers felt that Chief Jonathan was using the dust-up as an excuse to rid the country of what both he and South African authorities viewed as dangerous elements. As for the young King, Chief Jonathan seems inclined to forgive him once things quiet down-provided he immediately mends his ways. Otherwise, hinted some government leaders, they will depose Moshoeshoe and choose a new King from among the tribal chieftains...
Poet & Boxer. The most radical change is in the clubroom facilities. At the old Met, members had an elegant and spacious pad that was only a few bars' stroll from the bar and had a private entrance tended by a liveried doorman. The new room, decorated in quiet browns and blacks, seats 80 fewer members than the old, and the screens that separated women guests from the stag section have been removed...