Word: quietness
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...wearing—was simply breathtaking. It was an intimidating proposition to approach her, but we mustered the courage to initiate conversation. She was a freshman, studying engineering—a model Tuftette. Her smile itself was everything the young night had promised us; her demeanor, though a bit quiet, was charming and kind. It might have been love. If you were waiting for some torrid climax to this story, here...
We’re on our way to the party, we’re walking up the stairs, we’re outside the door, and it’s strange because it’s pretty quiet. Inside we find more guys, the lights all on, drinking and watching the Olympics. We decide to stay. They offer drinks. At this point it’s midnight, and it has become Valentine’s Day without us noticing. We talk about girls. There’s one, Orli, whom a few of the present company (still all dudes) have...
Sloane Square is a neatly laid out quadrangle in London’s borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Quiet streets are lined with high fashion labels, and carefully plotted plane trees provide shade and leafy overhead. Hardly, in other words, the place for revolution. It takes some imagination to think that it was here where John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” premiered in 1956. Osborne’s play took a harshly realistic look at working class life, marking him as one of several British playwrights and novelists in the late...
...Meet You,” difficult to classify. It is too emotionally charged to be relaxed, but too relaxed to be emotionally moving. Hynes has settled down from the first Lightspeed Champion album, 2008’s “Falling off Lavender Bridge,” in which quiet and underwhelming music masked angry self-loathing lyrics. However, “Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You” is a confused record. It is comprised of angry break-up ballads and swelling choruses interspersed with gentler piano sonatas and strummed ukuleles. The album’s lyrics...
...competitive business. If the conservatives bring more voters, more dollars and more intensity to the table, well, of course they get the bigger chair. They've earned it. The fault is with the moderates themselves. The moderate tendency still exists in the GOP. It expresses itself in quiet dealmaking in the halls of the Senate, in pragmatic decision-making in state capitals. But when challenged, the moderate tendency goes mute. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders...