Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...untutored eye, the photograph, on the library wall in a quiet brick house on Capitol Hill looks like any other sentimental memento of World War I-a double rank of Army officers seeming foolishly dated in their choked collars. But, like virtually everything else surrounding slight, modest, 64-year-old William Frederick Friedman, there is more to the picture than meets the eye. "Note," he says, pointing with enthusiasm to his old colleagues, "some of the faces are slightly turned. That's because the picture is actually a sentence in biliteral code." Its message: "Knowledge is power...
...domestic composers although he stopped writing over thirty years ago. His music is still too "modern" for many listeners, as he was an experimenter in polytonality, tone-clusters, and polyrhythms. The Third Symphony is one of his most accessible works, and the new recording brings out its surprisingly quiet beauty. Ives is one of the few composers who is American is spirit without being self-conscious about it, and he deserves attention as our first great composer. (Vanguard...
Labor's quiet little dinner party may prove the most instructive lesson of the great visit. Before a knowledgeable audience, it was the sharpest glimpse of the reality behind the beaming smiles of the Kremlin's Traveling Illusionists...
Fellow workers in the Nairobi office of East African Railways were surprised to learn that quiet, spectacled Walter Gash, a timetable checker, had won an M.B.E. ( Member of the Order of the British Empire) for pioneering this kind of warfare. Linking up with Mau Mau gangs, but staying in the background ("My phony Kikuyu accent would have given me away"), Gash gathered intelligence information, then would suddenly fling aside his rags and open fire with a submachine gun. "It was a case of kill or be killed in the forest," said Gash. Another operator working with the Pseudos was William...
...Clarks, best known for the success of their racing silks (including wins in both Britain's Derby and St. Leger with Never Say Die in 1954), started casting about for a place to house their huge art collection. They settled on a 90-acre hilltop lot in the quiet college community of Williamstown, because a) it was far removed from urban centers which might be atomic-bomb targets, and b) they were convinced that a crossroads museum might entice summer motorists who would never go near a big city art show...