Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother of four children, three teenagers, and all through their growing up I have rebelled at the pressure our children today are exposed to. We have too little respect for each child as an individual. Instead of watching a quiet child who wants, or even needs, to be alone, there is pressure on the child to participate. We criticize an introvert child for not being outgoing enough ... Of course, to an extent there must be a limit to dreaming, but would anyone pull out a flower to see if it grows right...
...life painting is perhaps the mildest form of art. While expressionists leap from pique to pique, and abstractionists zero grimly in on private voids, the still-life artist tidily rules a table-top world of unmoving, everyday things. Chances are he paints in a sitting position, slowly and with quiet enjoyment, never spattering his cuffs. Like mushrooms, his work prospers in a cool, humble atmosphere and appeals chiefly to gourmets. Still lifes are bound to be overshadowed by the products of more ambitious painters. Yet they sell well. Table-top worlds make reassuring, easy-to-live-with pictures...
...Flamboyance. Have the changes in New York produced better papers? "When you publish a paper in a town where the Times blankets the news," says Wechsler, "papers are bound to sell flamboyance rather than quiet news coverage." But flamboyance is not necessarily zestful or exciting journalism. In New York it has often led to sameness (e.g., the tabloid News and Mirror often have the same picture and headline blanketing Page One). The presence of the Times, 20% of whose coverage is national, has also caused many other papers to try to imitate its world view instead of concentrating on news...
...been quiet here since May 17," writes the newspaper editor at the University of North Carolina, and his statement is a key to Southern student opinion about the Supreme Court's outlawing of segregation in public schools. In a sampling of student editors, The Florida Flambeau found that despite some radical opinions on both sides, a wait-and-see attitude prevails in most Southern universities. This quiet seems to show that most college students have accepted eventual integration of whites and Negroes...
While lacking in strict dogma, and refusing to compete with established religious, Moral Rearmament requests its followers to observe a daily "quiet hour." During such a period the individual concentrates on an attitude of mind, which according to believers in moral rearmament, brings the guidance...