Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussion of Evanston's EMH program prompted a short discursion of Michael's general philosophy of educational administration. "In education, it's excellence for all, in whatever they do," Michael says with quiet conviction. He rejects the concept of an honor school, although he believes strongly in "a very heavily tracked curriculum in all subject areas on the basis of 'ability groups...
...until force was met by force did things begin to quiet down; then up went cries of police brutality. Nonsense! Rioters shouted "Freedom now!" Humbug! It's privileges that these few are looking for -or else! They reduced a cause to nothing more than blackmail. These race agitators here in Rochester have succeeded only in losing what they probably want most: respect...
Occasionally, One Potato makes a forceful point, particularly in a wedding sequence played against the cold, tight-lipped silence of a female witness. The drama's emotionally wrenching climax succeeds because Actress Barrie has built to it scene by scene. Her quiet, vulnerable eyes enter a plea for understanding that the dialogue cannot match. Mostly, the actors are stuck with expressions of immaculately liberal sentiment, as when the Negro suitor tells his father: "Pop, we're in love, just like you and Mom. What difference does it make if she's black, white, purple or green?" Fledgling...
...than bridge the gaps between the numbers--and it does so in the self-conscious, soap-operaish tones of daytime television. Joe's final realization, "I wasn't good enough to be a sparrow; I wanted to be an eagle," seemingly comes right out of the air and is, quiet literally, for the birds. The dialogue skips from cliches to abstract expressions of feeling so quickly and glibly that it neither convinces nor involves us. It only approximates emotion. The book neither unites the songs, nor equals their hard-hitting exactness of expression...
...Robert Frosch, director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, is sure by now that the present level of solar activity cannot confuse even the earlier satellites into giving a false alarm. But this is the sun's periodic quiet period; when it goes back into its active condition in a few years, blossoms with sunspots and flares and bombards the earth with streams of high-energy particles, the satellites may send in some puzzling reports. "There are still a number of ambiguities that we know nothing about," says Frosch...