Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spaghetti house (Husband Drake had a nightclub engagement in Washington). After dinner, they headed for the Drake home in Queens to look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck. The diminutive mobster lay dead with his head on her lap, one chubby hand still clutching the wheel and the blood from three head wounds slowly staining...
...Beatnikery is out," Mortimer told himself as he paged through a copy of Life. "When Smithies quote Ginsburg instead of Donne, all exclusiveness is lost." We start a quiet little revolt and before we know it, Random House and Time and C.B.S. take it over and build it into a big thing. Even the New Yorker expresses horror...
...drab British factory towns dominated so long by "dark, Satanic mills" have a striking new landmark: the government-maintained school. More than 4,000 new buildings have risen in the last decade. They are telling symptoms of a quiet revolution wrought by the historic Education Act of 1944. Under the act, British schooling ceased to be an upper-class privilege. Today any child mentally able to make the grade is entitled to a free secondary and university education, a situation unthinkable in caste-bound Britain before World...
Actor Saxon, born in Brooklyn in 1935, is not a convincing Puerto Rican, but if Cry Tough has a redeeming feature, it is his quiet, unmumbling appeal as an upcoming young actor...
Saturday is healing for the whole week. "The telephone is silent. I can think, read, study, walk, or do nothing. It is an oasis of quiet. When night falls, I go back to the wonderful nerve-racking Broadway game. Often I make my best contribution of the week then and there to the grisly literary surgery that goes on and on until opening night. My producer one Saturday night said to me, 'I don't envy you your religion, but I envy you your Sabbath...