Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shortly after the Sixth Symphony and like it a resolution of the torment expressed in the Fifth. Its many lightly inflected moods flow peacefully together with classical clarity, interrupted in the middle by a short, funny honky-tonk of a Scherzo. The Melos Ensemble of London plays it with quiet understanding; it presents as well a sparkling, icy Prokofiev Quintet dated Paris...
...Last week, however, seemed to be a good week for China's Communist bosses. U.S. efforts to establish a "stable" government in South Viet Nam seemed farther than ever from fruition after another ludicrous sequence of coup and countercoup. The shooting war against the Viet Cong was relatively quiet, and President Johnson, despite his recent air reprisals against North Viet Nam for attacks on Ameri can personnel, now seemed willing to let matters calm down. But at home, the cries for negotiations leading to a withdrawal from Viet Nam came to crescendo...
Fellow Texan Mann has impressed the President ever since his appointment as Assistant Secretary 13 months ago. Johnson has often exclaimed to associates about Mann: "He's great!" With quiet skill Mann helped persuade 19 of the 20 nations of the Organization of American States (Mexico is still holding out) to join the U.S.'s economic trade embargo against Cuba. He also tightened controls over the disbursal of Alliance for Progress funds, helped build up the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance into a forum where Latin Americans can realistically criticize and improve on their own national self...
Next day Madras was quiet, but violence flared in Bengal and the former French colony of Pondicherry. Indira Gandhi, daughter of the late Jawaharlal Nehru, said that Shastri was ready to compromise, and the Law Ministry was reportedly preparing a draft proposal for presentation next week to the chief ministers of India's 16 states. That would not necessarily end Shastri's troubles. Hindi fanatics might well generate an even more violent whirlwind if their dream of language supremacy is shattered...
Eliot lies in ashes. Auden flogs his muse infrequently in exile. England, for so many centuries "a nest of singing birds," finds herself today unwontedly in want of a great poet she can call her own. Yet in a quiet nook of Yorkshire, a strange bird occasionally lifts his voice to cantillate the fierce interior music of a tortured and solitary sensibility...