Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quiet & Subdued. The blow fell in the ancient Hindu temple town of Bhubaneswar, 220 miles southwest of Calcutta, where 10,000 delegates, officials, newsmen and hangers-on were gathered for the Congress Party's 68th annual convention. Bhubaneswar had worn a festive air. Green, white and saffron party flags fluttered from hundreds of flagpoles, and pictures of Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi adorned shop windows. On his arrival, Nehru was so weak that aides had to lift him from a helicopter, and when he finally was able to walk, he shuffled away with back bent and head bowed...
...sonatina by Diabelli -is sensuous and tender. And Armand Thirard's photography is almost too dreamily lovely to believe. The film was actually shot at Blaye on the River Gironde, and in Thirard's frames, the big river, the wide land, the vast sky and the quiet clouds all seem to be shimmering mysteriously in the depths of a tremendous pearl...
...QUIET ENEMY, by Cecil Dawkins. These seven longish stories about recessive but exotic people of the inland South have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind...
...Year's Day, the author of A Passage to India eschewed any public remembrances or large party, instead spent the holidays with Robert Buckingham, 40, a Coventry probation officer. The two met when Buckingham was ten and have been fast friends ever since. "I spent a very quiet day on my birthday with him, his wife and their three children," said the gentle, aging bachelor. "I suppose by American standards you'd say it was a dull British day, but I like to have the children around...
...QUIET ENEMY by Cecil Dawkins. 214 pages. Atheneum...