Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the war going against them, many guerrillas sought refuge in the capital, joining forces with urban terrorists who had been relatively quiet. Then, early last month, President Julio César Méndez Montenegro ordered an increase in the sales tax and bus fares, and the terrorism that had been largely confined to the countryside flared up in the capital. Communist fire bombs exploded in Guatemala City's two largest department stores, causing more than $1,000,000 in damage...
...Beach and White Sulphur Springs. Both sides regard it as one of the trophies in this war and consequently it sees little of the fighting. Saigon politicos and generals use it for their R & R and there are serious reports that VC higher-ups vacation here too. The unnatural quiet of this place almost becomes repugnant--all you have to do is read the Saigon Post or listen to the radio to know that Da Lat is leading a charmed life. IVS hired an excellent old gentleman to tutor us for six and a half hours...
Strike for Sanity. Playing the role of a quiet subversive among the hortatory voices of the Times editorial page, Baker mocks "overstates," the "crisis-glut" and determined problem solvers. "A solved problem creates two new problems," he writes, "and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to." A sober Washington reporter himself until a sense of futility overcame him, Virginia-born Baker became the Times's first humor columnist six years ago. He uses humor, he says, "to strike a blow for sanity...
Bentinck-Smith also argued that television is an exceptional medium, relying too much on entertainment content. "It tends to over-dramatize events and take them out of the realm of quiet discussion," he stated. "Participants get in front of the camera and become camera conscious." These generalizations not only underestimate the potentials of television, they insult the production staff at WGBH and the many distinguished members of last Thursday's panel...
...Milkbottle H has the first-rate makings of an old-fashioned Jewish family story. If only he could have dropped his awful obligation to art-his cosmic gropings after sex and death, universal guilt, America! America!-all Author Orlovitz may really have wanted to do was write a nice quiet memoir about a Philadelphia boyhood, made up of such common scrapbook elements as a father hangup, comic aunts, and holiday outings in Atlantic City...