Word: quietness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ripening. At week's end all signs were that De Gaulle was right. In the approved manner, quiet President René Coty let the crisis "ripen" for three days, then called in Socialist Guy Mollet, and asked him to form a government. When Mollet admitted defeat, Coty turned to René Pleven, head of the small U.D.S.R., whose chances of success were, if anything, less than Mollet...
...century and the evaluation of the Scrolls' significance to the history of Judaism and Christianity were too complex to be tailored skillfully for the TV camera. The one-hour show benefited from a rare bit of casting: the role of the late Dr. Sukenik was played with quiet earnestness by his son, Israeli stage and film actor, Yoseph Yadin...
...past. The forms he likes to make are in great demand; recently they have come to adorn such varied projects as the Manhattan showroom for Olivetti typewriters, a war memorial at Falls Church, Va. (TIME, Oct. 10, 1955). "Because of the privileges of history," Nivola says with quiet satisfaction, "we have arrived at the point where we do not have to please the king. On the other hand, we do not work to please the public. The artist must give not something that is demanded, but what he finds in his own pocket...
There, in the shadowed quiet of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dr. Porcello flung the rocks at a stained-glass window. He missed, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Later he learned that his daughter's marriage to her 30-year-old, former prep school English teacher had taken place three hours before Porcello, a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, and his Roman Catholic wife hadn't objected to their daughter's choice, merely wanted her to wait until she was older. Last week, in New York Magistrate's court, contrite Dr. Porcello ("I am glad...
After that, the book offers enough coats and hooks to fill a good-sized cloakroom. Meanwhile, the younger kids scrape and squabble, while the old folks lead lives of quiet exasperation: a mother dies:a father loses his job; a family moves to another town. No small-town girl herself, Author Winsor (who grew up in Berkeley, Calif.) has caught a few authentic echoes of small-town speech. She quotes Dostoevsky to the effect that "there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome" than "a memory of childhood." But then, Dostoevsky never knew Kathleen Winsor, who makes childhood seem...