Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Diana Churchill, 54, eldest daughter of Sir Winston, a quiet blonde who saw her first marriage, to a South African gold-mine heir, go on the rocks within months, her second, to Tory Politician Duncan Sandys (now Commonwealth Relations Secretary), end after 25 years in 1960, reverted to her maiden name and devoted her time to the Samaritans, an organization that tries to dissuade would-be suicides from taking the final step; by her own hand (barbiturates); in London...
...deeply what happens to Domenico-and to many more than Domenico. For in this remarkable first film, the work of a 32-year-old Italian named Ermanno Olmi, Domenico is the surrogate of every mother's son who ever sold his labor for a sad little living. With quiet poignance, with gay and gentle humor, with gradual but ultimately pulverizing irony, the director investigates the well-known social process that begins with a free soul and ends with a wage slave...
...most of James's contemporaries agreed that Santayana was a fellow who just did not fit in. Born in Spain and brought up in Boston, he was never really at home in Europe or the U.S. At a time when philosophy was robustly assured, Santayana remained a quiet skeptic. Other philosophers wrote a brisk, matter-of-fact style; Santayana wrote a highly poetic one. They were aggressively liberal and believed in the inevitability of progress; Santayana was a hermitlike conservative who yearned for tradition, a settled order, a sense of place...
Visitors sense this cult, too--partly because the museum displays three portraits of Mrs. Gardner. In one she appears veiled and quiet--the scholar, the patron of the arts. In another painting across the same room, Mrs. Gardner seems about to sweep forward, her arms gracefully extended...
...hours the square was quiet but mysterious goings-on continued elsewhere. The last event reported was the materialization of bathroom tissue on the walls of Comstock's dining hall...