Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long, Red Curls. Jack, a quiet, neat child with long, red curls, began working at eleven, helping his mother sell crockery from a pushcart. After graduating as senior class president from Manhattan's George Washington High School, he worked as a lithographic-supply salesman and a bill collector, attended New York University's law school at the same time, passed his bar exams in 1927. In that, year was born Javits & Javits, a firm specializing in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, with Ben the inside man and Jack the eloquent trial lawyer. Jack, who set up his own firm when...
...holder of five pass-catching records at the academy, Carpenter was battalion commander and winner of a special award for "inspirational personal courage and leadership in athletics." "Bill," said former Army Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, "had the mentality for doing the unusual. His kind of leadership was the quiet type-action rather than words. He'd do something himself on the football field and that would inspire the others...
...moment the group looked after the man, warm in the knowledge that all seven of them were supposed to read "Bartleby the Scrivener" that weekend. Then they turned and headed for the Union. And under a quiet eave in Wadsworth House the Geistgauge throbbed...
...their own high-flying costs. Though the builders insist that the Concorde will be in service on schedule in May 1971, expensive engine and wing changes have had to be worked into the original design to guarantee a 4,000-mile range with ample fuel reserves, and thus quiet complaints that the plane was too short-legged for reliable, nonstop transatlantic flight. Those modifications, along with a "stretched" cabin which boosts passenger capacity from 118 to a more profitable 136, have helped send development costs soaring from the original estimate of $500 million to $1.1 billion. The tab for each...
...commanding originality. Foreigners have been less fortunate. At 69, Montale has only recently made the cultural scene in France and Britain, and in the U.S. his poetry is virtually unknown. Transatlantic ignorance is now relieved by the first volume of Montale in translation to appear in the U.S. With quiet force the book discloses what the poetry public has been missing: a European writer of enduring importance, indisputably the most profound Italian poet of the 20th century...