Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forced to adapt to fierce variations in climate, and when the brutalities of nature hastened his evolution from the apes. Dating the period precisely has always been difficult. On land, erosion has obliterated almost all trace of the Pleistocene's earliest glaciers. On most parts of the cold, quiet ocean bottom, where remnants of prehistory have survived, ancient sediments have piled up too deeply for convenient study. The cylindrical cores that have been brought up have not reached down to layers deposited at the beginning of the ice age. So scientists have long puzzled over the proper Pleistocene timing...
...release is the diplomatic handiwork of two close Curia friends of Pope John-Augustin Cardinal Bea, chief of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and Gustavo Cardinal Testa, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which supervises Byzantine-rite Catholics. Late last November, Bea arranged a quiet meeting between Testa and the two Russian observers at the Vatican Council. Testa smoothly pointed out that the Pope had officially disavowed a protest prepared by a group of Ukrainian bishops at the council objecting to the presence of the Russians, tactfully brought up the subject of Archbishop Slipyi...
Closed Cave. Born in the Riff mountains of northern Morocco, educated at a Spanish school in Melilla, a quiet employee of the Spanish Moroccan administration until he was 38, Krim became a rebel when the Spanish broke the peace with the Riff tibesmen by seizing the holy city of Xauen. In the subsequent fighting, Krim was captured and his father killed. Escaping from the Spanish prison in Melilla, Krim broke his leg and ever after walked with a pronounced limp. Gaining the safety of the mountains, he rallied the Riffs for a jihad against Spain...
...privately run Whitehead Iron & Steel. R.T.B.'s chairman for four years, Eley moved into action with government approval when the rival steel firm of Stewarts & Lloyds tried to take over Whitehead-a move that, if successful, would have deprived Eley's firm of its best customer. A quiet, very polite man who lists one of his recreations as "living privately," Eley shrewdly bought up Whitehead shares by raising Stewarts & Lloyds' offer, won 50% of them at $12 a share. Since nationalized R.T.B. is a money-losing proposition, the British taxpayer will have to provide the $30.1 million...
Revolt Against What? Unlike the generation of the '20s and '30s, both of which were in revolt in one form or another against the bourgeois family, Salinger's quiet ones are in revolt against nothing but the "phoniness'" in human life itself, she points out. In fact, the family has become an enclave of private and very special spiritual excellence -specifically the nonphony Glass family, of which Seymour the elder, who has undergone martyrdom-by-suicide. was guru. Rejecting its patents of superiority, Miss McCarthy sees the Glass family as "a terrifying narcissus pool...