Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experts in such matters (though no, to be sure, by Mr. Campbell) which would instantly provide an ideal setting--something Harvard could certainly use--for the grandest, most solemn and most joyous occasions (as well as ordinary ones) and also, quite possibly most important of all, a place for quiet contemplation, for receiving the inspiring messages from the past emanating from the surroundings (including, perhaps, paintings and tapestries) and for simply congregating with other students and teachers, as the hall's donor, Major Henry Lee Higginson, intended...
...race between the mainstream and the extreme, that's what it's all about." Democrats, on the other hand, are celebrating the demise of Republicanism as it becomes tainted with and supplanted by Buchananism. Pat Buchanan's extremism has left President Clinton with what the New York Times called "quiet glee," making Clinton's mistakes and controversial policies seem relatively excusable...
Despite complaints and whining from Saturday night partiers, Brown says he wouldn't mind trying the bell ringing some quiet Sunday morning...
...clueless about what was going on in America. Prostrating themselves at the altar of a balanced budget, the politicians in Washington paid little attention to what was happening to the family budget. Then, Pat Buchanan steps forward to be the "voice of the voiceless," and the peoples' quiet desperation seems muted no longer...
...administration of the Serb-held Vogosca suburb of Sarajevo. Instead, officials took over the administration of a nearly empty town. Most of the 24,000 Bosnian Serbs who inhabited Vogosca had already fled for Serb territory, and the Muslim-Croat police made their way to the city hall down quiet, deserted streets. When they got there, they may have confirmed fears the few remaining Serbs had about the transfer of power. The new bosses raised a Bosnian government flag over an administrative building, and tore a Serbian sign from the police station. Calling the transfer a "farce," Vogosca's Serb...