Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether noisy or quiet, at least one thing differentiated the speakers this year. Where they once used to stride along roads (long), sail oceans (uncharted), or climb mountains (lofty), they are now in orbit (dizzying). Said Emmett Dedmon, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, at George Williams College: "May the explosions of your generation cut as clean as those which freed the capsule of Gemini IV from the booster engines." Whatever his fellow editors might think of that particular metaphor, Dedmon stated the dominant theme of the 1965 commmencement speeches: the "explosions" of the younger generation...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Ludwig Erhard, LL.D., Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Man of full dedication, honest realism, wise moderation and quiet conciliation, staunch and good friend of America. Alva Reimer Myrdal, L.H.D. Swedish educator, sociologist, public official and wife of Economist Gunnar Myrdal...
...prove that all can be made quiet on the homefront again, a group of Texas builders have opened 20 model homes in San Antonio that claim to be the quintessence of tranquillity...
...anti-intellectualism, I should like to add a qualifying remark to your most stimulating Essay [May 21]. A great deal of the "respect" you are talking about is paid not to the intellectuals but to the intellectual charlatans of a TV quiz-show type. The true intellectual, the quiet, original thinker who has the acumen and the courage of original thought, still receives only a trifle of the recognition paid to the pseudo intellectuals who often dominate the scene. If those criteria are applied, it becomes doubtful whether present-day America can boast a population ratio of intellectuals 7.5 times...
...Gelfert Strasse opened and two people walked out into the sunlight. The man was tall and burly, his mane of dark wavy hair streaked with grey. His wife was plain and wore her dark blonde hair brushed back over her ears in a severe boyish bob. Absorbed in quiet argument, they walked along the tree-lined street to a neighborhood park, where they talked some more. Then, arm in arm, they returned to the house, and the man bade his wife farewell...