Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost unearthly love of brother for sister. Their rapturous relationship was doomed; the sister has been killed by the cruder man whom she married but to whom she had never given herself. At the trial of truth, the boy, his Conquistador parents, and the husband declare themselves before a quiet, frozen chorus of townspeople, baring themselves in extraordinary speeches that are nearly soliloquies...
...Thing, because it brought together two magnificent figures--William Jennings Bryan and the great lawyer, Clarence Darrow. As an added attraction there was H.L. Mencken, who reported the story for his Baltimore newspaper. The climax of the play comes in the confrontation scene between the two giants, when the quiet, gallus-snapping Darrow, acting for the defense, calls prosecutor Bryan to the witness chair and exposes his Bible-belting oratory as so much hot air. A most exciting scene, this, and much of the excitement is due to the fine performance of Melvyn Douglas as Darrow. One scarcely realizes just...
...wind, snow and ice. Green Bank filled the bill admirably. Radio noise in the valley was only a thousandth of the noise at the Naval Research Laboratory radio telescope in Washington. Moreover, Green Bank was distinguished by the fact that no commercial aircraft pass over or near it. Its quiet inhabitants occupied themselves raising livestock and dairying. All in all, the astronomers decided, there was no other place in the East where the sounds of the universe would come through quite so clearly...
...With the quiet diplomacy of an elder statesman, Griff restored faculty confidence, without sacrificing the administration's control. He stumped across the land urging more alumni support, raised enough money to up faculty salaries more than 15%-^ As peace returned to the campus, Reed's drooping enrollment climbed back to normal, and Griff retired again...
...closeness of the group does not prevent privacy, since, according to Stephen Cushman, "you can be alone all you want." Although the walls are thin, the dorm is quiet, and "when there's noise, everyone makes it," Cushman said. Some of the 17 study in Lamont, but most study in the dorm, where it is "quieter than in the Yard," James R. Murphy claims...