Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Begin with Attila in the afternoon, when Washington Street is relatively quiet and the Paramount butters your popcorn twice. Attila is an unhappy retouching of the pre-fall Roman days when the Huns manifested their destiny and scourged their way to the Tiber...
Since the Program for Harvard College has not completed its publicity drive, the Medical School is still conducting "a very quiet campaign," Rand said. He estimated that an all-out effort to obtain contributions would probably begin in the Fall...
Times. "The Administration's widely promised fight for President Eisenhower's Pentagon reorganization bill turned into a quiet, well-ordered retreat," wrote Washington Correspondent Russell Baker. Neil McElroy "congenially offered up major portions of the legislation for rewriting by the hostile House Armed Services Committee. Thus, before the rousing all-out battle pledged by the President was ever joined, Mr. McElroy had set the stage for a compromise settlement with the plan's bitterest critics...
...Schweik (Tenor Norman Kelley) as he is being arrested for "high treason," traces his progress through a scurvy prison and a madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from the trenches singing a plaintive little song ("I'll take a quiet road, and I'll lie in the sun/For birds and butterflies, I won't need my gun"), and a bowler-hatted dandy comes onstage to sing his epitaph as "the kind of fellow that fellow men like...
...turbulent, doom-splashed setting, Reporter and Author Theodore H. (for Harold) White (Thunder Out of China, Fire in the Ashes) projects a well-crafted first novel. A June Book-of-the-Month Club co-selection, The Mountain Road combines a pistol-paced war story with the education of a quiet American major whose cultural reflexes are slower than his command decisions...