Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looking around at her quiet Cambridge apartment where vases of flowers adorn most tables, she remembers her 1969 Harvard room, which didn't feel as peaceful...
...family. The purpose of this letter is to suggest that you could serve your readers by pointing out that there is help for those who feel they don't know where to turn, places where they will not be shamed or reviled. More of us are living lives of quiet desperation than you may realize, but we don't need to act on our fears if we can get proper help and support...
...like a scene from George Orwell's 1984. One quiet Monday night, two Ithaca policemen knocked at 21-year-old Cornell student Matt Mihaly's door. Refusing to show him an arrest warrant, they handcuffed him, shoved him into the back of a squad car and incarcerated him in the mental ward of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital for two days. While he was there, they extracted blood against his will, placed him in psychotherapy and released him only on the condition that he pay the hospital's bill of several thousand dollars...
...comment is "an ambiguous statement that could signal several different directions." Instead of merely assuming that ESAC is plunging into militant activism at the expense of "rational debate," the editorial board should have considered what Chong meant by "a different approach." In fact, she was alluding to the quiet activism of the Academic Affairs Committee, a committee which has collected ethnic studies syllabi from other universities and submitted them to the dean of undergraduate education...
Mornings are quiet; like all teenagers, homeless youths sleep in whenever possible. Then they wander to youth centers like My Friend's Place in Los Angeles, which offers food, showers, friendship and counseling. "You've got to look beyond the drugs and the prostitution and see that these are just kids, kids who should be taking driver's ed right now or worrying about which corsage to wear," says executive director Steve LePore. Behind him, several , youths in worn clothing lie on the floor asleep...