Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet little man who was the object of such attention never thought so well of himself. Born in 1824, he had spent his childhood at Le Havre, and when his early facility at drawing earned him a grant to study art in Paris, he chose instead to paint on his own and use the money for living. Boudin had discovered and nurtured the young Claude Monet, but he did not think that he himself had the "temperament" to become a great master. And so he preferred to do what pleased him. Unencumbered by academic training, he developed alone into...
Until that time, however certain one is that a vast crime is in progress, the duties of etiquette bind one to silence or at most quiet, unobtrusive suggestions that perhaps one's chosen leaders ought to alter their course a tiny bit. Therefore I regret the discourteousy of a demonstration I took part in and apolozige to Secretary McNamara. MERRILL KAITZ...
David Sloss does a beautiful job of keeping his twenty-three fine musicians together through the tricky orchestrations. Now all he has to do is keep them quiet, for they are much too loud, and although few lyrics get lost, the noise gets painful. Mutes on the brass and a lighter hand on the tympani might help. J.D. McLaughlin's set leaves a maximum amount of clear space for cavorting on the small Agassiz stage. The show is brightly lit, as comedy should be, and the costumes are clashingly colorful and good...
Pike went on to the Jesuits' University of Santa Clara with vague hopes of studying some day for the priesthood. Rather than stilling his first quiet doubts about Christian doctrine, the Jesuits increased them. Pike was jolted by the inconsistency between what he learned in the physics lab and what...
...speculators seek action in risky, low-priced shares. Last week, in the first study ever made of investors who actually buy and sell there, the American Exchange looked like quite a tame market place. Based on a survey of 8,000 stock trading deals last May 25-a relatively quiet day in the market-the A.S.E. reported that: > Institutions such as banks, insurance companies and pension funds-whose securities business has been heavily concentrated on the Big Board of the New York Stock Exchange-accounted for 11 % of Amex trading (compared with 31% in the latest survey of N.Y.S.E. investors...