Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouragement to the Cambridge Planning Board and the thousands of other citizens interested in preserving what little space remains for quiet contemplation within metropolitan areas. Like so many other things, urban recreational space has been needlessly swept away in the wake of blind expediency...
...very much delighted to have him," Richard T. Gill, Master of Leverett House, said last night. "We hope to make it as pleasant and quiet as possible to give him a chance to work on his book." Gill added that he had made the House dining hall facilities available to Sorensen. Whether or not Sorensen will eat there depends, Gill said, on his schedule...
Master Gill said that if Sorensen's plans to live in the Towers changed at some later date, Sorensen would be able to maintain his affiliation with the House. "But we hope he'll stay, and that is why we want to make it quiet and pleasant," Gill said...
...existence of an upper echelon within the Senate, and occasionally within the House, has long been a public secret in Washington. Everyone knows it exists, but the men who belong to the inner circle take only quiet pride in their membership. The men who hope eventually to work their way into this conclave know they hurt their own chances by talking about it. Senator Joseph Clark (D-Penn.), who is not a member, insured his continued ostracism by devoting three days on the floor last February to a description of what he called the "Senate Establishment" and to a list...
...James loved her." The James who so dominates the fam ily is James Joyce, and his sister, May Joyce Monaghan, 74, was talking about him during a visit to New York on the 82nd anniversary of his birth. "Jim, as we used to call him, was very gentle and quiet. He wasn't a fighter, you know. He used to say everybody recognized he was a genius except his six sisters." At that, May has managed better than most readers. "I've read the Portrait and Dubliners over and over. I've read Ulysses," she boasted...