Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take-off message, the President of the U.S. spoke with quiet precision of the reason for his eleven-nation, 22,370-mile global mission...
...with the accent of Kansas of farmers who cultivate fields of wheat as vast as seas, of pioneers who went West not long before his birth. He speaks without rhetoric before the imminent peril as he calls for 'Peace, Peace,' -but not peace for the sake of quiet or lack of principle, but peace in which free men believe...
...Reich down a convenient memory hole and are disinclined to resurrect them. To make sure that they are nonetheless nudged from time to time is the task of a small but diligent scholarly organization with the innocuous name Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History), housed in a quiet, three-story house in Munich, the city where Hitler got his start...
...theory that a museum should be a popular showroom of art rather than a quiet haven. Cheek even goes so far as to pipe soft music through the museum galleries (different music subtly matched to the mood of different galleries), provides visitors with canned gallery talks (on transistor radio sets) as well...
...park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Irving Thalberg, Marie Dressier, Flo Ziegfeld are buried in Forest Lawn. Many found that the 100.000 shrubs provided plenty of quiet places to neck in. Eaton encouraged them all, and reached them all with the Forest Lawn message: "Everything at time of sorrow, in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit arrangement and a year to pay . . . ONE TELEPHONE CALL DOES EVERYTHING...