Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard community know anything at all about the more than three miles of tunnels underneath them. A garrulous old bum who used to spend the nights around Leverett House told an undergraduate last year that he often slept inside the Weeks Bridge where "it's warm and quiet." It seems odd that a bum and a Nazi spy should be more familiar with the Tunnel than most undergraduates, especially since the existence of the underground passages is by no means a secret, and Harvard men--at least some of them--are inquisitive. Yet, it is somehow comforting to know that...
Several of the spectators continued yelling taunts at the marchers for about five minutes. "They're crusading for NOTHING," one of them cried. At this point, a policeman commanded the apparent leader to keep quiet, and, a minute later, police ordered the traffic island to be cleared of all spectators...
...concerned with the state of Vientiane's Thai Dam pagoda. They believe that the black Buddhist shrine is in reality a cork that holds back an evil demon. Last week, when flares arched over the Thai Dam and the rattle of rifle fire broke Vientiane's predawn quiet, many Laotians feared that the cork had come unstuck...
...Papered with People." The opening achieved a kind of quiet beauty entirely new to New York (see color pages). The theater's columned entrance faces Philharmonic Hall across a wide plaza, and the two buildings reflect each other in scale and design as well as purpose.* With audiences arriving at each and the fountain splashing between, both buildings acquire an air of excitement that is beyond the reach of either alone. But where Philharmonic Hall evokes a modern age of icy grandeur, the New York State Theater is a warm and elegant restatement of traditional splendor - reminiscent, in fact...
...Cruelly stomping down a child's sand castle, raising hob in a roadhouse, or pairing off at random, they seem little more than anonymous delinquents-the kind of blank, boisterous folk that cause the family trade to gather up their towels and baskets and move to a nice quiet spot at the far end of the beach...