Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Way to Go. At first, integrated buses on night runs were sporadically peppered with shotgun blasts. Then things seemed to quiet down. It was a false quiet. One night last month the stillness was shattered by a series of dynamite blasts. A bomb exploded outside the home of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Negro pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has subordinated his own admitted ambitions for leadership to become King's strong, trusted right hand. Another bomb ripped into the home of a special object of white venom: the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor...
Raoul Wallenberg was no ordinary diplomat. The polylingual, much-traveled son of a wealthy Swedish banker, he had begun his diplomatic career only some six months earlier after a quiet meeting in Stockholm with U.S. Minister Herschel Johnson and Iver Olson, representative of Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board in Sweden. Olson and Johnson put the mission to Wallenberg simply: Would he go to Budapest as a member of the neutral Swedish-legation staff and, using U.S. funds, try to save Hungary's remaining 300,000-odd Jews (prewar Hungarian Jewish population: 800,000) from Nazi gas chambers...
Reporting on the conditions in Communist China, the Nieman fellow said that "although there is a totalitarian regime with complete control on every level of society, there has been a vast improvement of economic conditions and, in the past year, a quiet liberalization movement reflecting an eased world situation...
...studious Roommate is quiet and rarely exhibitive. But his sensitive composure is liable to be shattered by a loud sneeze. Ergo, if you would retain his affection, muffle your sneeze, perhaps in his Thesaurus...
...writing and storytelling alike, more and more grips and stirs its audience. And thanks to a generally fine production, the last act is partly salvaged. As James Callifer's mother, Dame Sybil Thorndike displays an almost vanished grand manner. As James's exwife, Leueen MacGrath has quiet poise. As James, Robert Flemyng manages to make flatness sharp and inner deadness alive, while Frank Conroy, as the uncle, is merely perfect...