Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Fall, after Dean Ford and Dean John P. Elder of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences rejected the requests, the Federation began a quiet campaign to enlist the aid and sympathies of tenured faculty members at Harvard...
Perhaps the most important man at the meeting was Jack Gore, an economist from Boulder, Colorado, who has become the moving force behind the liberal challenge. While Lowenstein is flamboyant, Gore is a quiet, hardworker...
...Soviet Union itself has openly recognized the problem. In a long commentary, Pravda admitted that "many people, including Communists in fraternal parties," did not agree with the Soviet Union's action in Czechoslovakia. Pravda put the blame on the inability of outsiders to perceive that a "quiet counterrevolution" had, in fact, been going on in Czechoslovakia. One must not wait, wrote Pravda, "for the shooting of Communists and the appearance of gallows before going to the aid of the adherents of socialism." Such tortuously dogmatic reasoning was apt to exacerbate rather than calm the anger of Communists abroad...
...Angel label. The music should prove as much of a surprise to Shostakovich's fans as to his critics. Gone are the characteristic hard-edged rhythms, brittle orchestral sounds and prankish grotesqueries. Instead, the bad boy of Russian music seems to have found a new mood of lyrical quiet and contentment. His artistic debt to Sergei Prokofiev is as clear as ever-embarrassingly so at times-and some of his melodic writing in the first movement is downright dull. But the elegiac sweep of the middle adagio movement and the jauntiness of the finale compensate admirably for these shortcomings...
Instead, Brinton found, "Though full feeding makes most beats quiet, this is not so of homo sapiens . . . if he has a full or tolerably full belly and a grieviance . . . he will make a revolution." And, he added, "This is the uniformity Americans really must master if we are to adjust ourselves to a world we cannot wholly remake...