Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thoughts and words were made known in quiet talks with unnerved Congressmen, in one of his toughest-talk press conferences (see below), in a strategically timed call on Congress to provide more foreign aid to U.S. allies, and finally, in a speech drafted for nationwide telecast a few days before the arrival this week of Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Demure, with downcast eyes, displaying a modesty beneath which lies tempered steel, 24-year-old Michiko Shoda last week crossed the blue moat surrounding the Imperial Palace. Behind her lay the roaring, garish city of Tokyo, with huge advertising balloons adrift above the rooftops. Ahead stretched the quiet greenery of the palace grounds, where unpaid volunteers tended the gardens. As her chauffeur-driven car passed through the tall gateway, guarded by policemen with gold chrysanthemums on their collars, Michiko was carried into the secluded "world within the moat" that will be hers next month on her marriage to Crown Prince...
...like many Japanese liberals, he feels that the imperial family must reign, but not govern, much in the manner of the British royal family. The prince proved especially fond of anecdotes detailing the homely, comfortable existence of Britain's rulers-such passages as "King George preferred a quiet evening at home, when he could read aloud to the Queen...
...Hayes-Bickford Eating Place clientele noticed some tuxedos among the bearded loafers of the 11 o'clock crowd. Here, they thought, is something. Here is what we have been waiting for these long years. The Bick has ceased to be the symbol of the locusts' ravage, the turtles' quiet call. And swiftly they gathered back where the butterscotch puddings stand stacked in gleaming rows, where the untoasted English lies moist and soft in purple racks. We must do this slowly, they said, but inexorably...
...would "Rise up alone against Creon, her uncle, the King." Tragic inevitability is embodied in Antigone, "the pride of Oedipus"; "Death was her purpose," and the matter of the burial of her rebel brother's body only a pretext. Miss Allen does a competent job, quite effective in quiet moments, but she is not heroic...