Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of this gruesome inevitability, the Harvard community must seek ways to ameliorate a condition which only Armageddon can end. Knowing that the bells will not resign themselves to an ornamental quiet, we must search for the only people who know how to control them. Somewhere in Russia, where the bells were cast, there exists, we pray, a sect of monks who are the original trustees of the bells. Either the present Quasimodos of Lowell House must go to these learned men for lessons, or one of the brothers must be persuaded to leave his peaceful retreat. If the monks...
...first countries to grant diplomatic recognition to the young United States, added that his own country now seeks American aid-but not alms: "We want to be helped now, in order not to be helped in the future." TIME'S cover story traces the astonishing development of this quiet, withdrawn man who won his country's independence without renouncing the friendship of its onetime rulers. See FOREIGN NEWS, Man of Balances...
...long since nudged into bright new homes, often near the best suburbs. Modern "family bowling centers'" are embellished with cafés, drugstores, beauty parlors, nurseries for the children. As a final embellishment of respectability the Bowling Congress last week was urging all fans to join in a quiet campaign to replace the "alley" and its back-door connotation, with the more genteel word "lane...
...admire "Love Comes To Miss Lucy," "Sridni Vashtar," and "A Jungle Graduate" more than the average piece in the collection simply because of their ideas: a seeming love affair that takes an unusual turn, a child who wishes and imagines a murder that comes true, and a quiet story of turnabout. "The Waxwork" deserves less praise for its idea (a night in a waxwork chamber of horrors), but a great deal for its ending, which is led up to gently and tidily. "The Lady On The Grey," an echo of Circe, is a minor but still notable example...
...booze, sells his second pair of pants to buy some more, passes out on the sidewalk, wakes up to find his suitcase stolen, takes a day's work as a crate hustler, tries to straighten himself out at the Bowery Mission but just can't stand the quiet and runs out for a quick one. That night he gets sapped and rolled in a back street, and the next morning decides "to get off this Bowery-I'm goin' to Chicago. Gonna make my last stand out there. If I don't make it this...