Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggle for individual freedom. Harvard was under violent press and political attack by men who either misunderstood or misrepresented the nature of the issue and the realities of the decision, and the new President was himself a target of abuse. Nathan Pusey met this situation with a serene and quiet courage which did as much as the earlier acts of specific decision to affirm the continuing integrity of the University. Stubborn in the right, strong in his convictions as an administrator and as a man, bold where the freedom of the human mind and spirit is concerned Nathan Pusey...
...role of army Captain William Paris calls for a degree of quiet insanity well-suited to both Sim and British comedy. As entertainment officer and Chaplain, Paris decides that the weekly groans of a string quartet are hardly a diversion for his troops. To his quest for a program replacement, the Captain applies his own special talents of adroit bungling and naivete. He is essentially a master of the faux pas, breeching social etiquette regularly and filling in the gaps with comic dignity and a pained smile...
...collector of the evil things of his time-war, homelessness. futility. But his taste as a collector is rarely original, and perhaps too sentimental. When he was 18, he marched off to war with the Kaiser's armies; the result (not published until 1929) was All Quiet on the Western Front, still the best item in his collection. More recent history has given Remarque the plots for mediocre stories on a Nazi concentration camp (Spark of Life) and that victim of Europe's ravening isms, the rootless refugee (Arch of Triumph). Almost inevitably, Remarque had to write...
...change is perhaps due to the aging of the writer (he is a mellow 55), perhaps to the aging of the age. All Quiet was dedicated to a simple proposition: war is hateful, and the best way to prevent it is to hate it enough. It glowed with a kind of sentimentality in reverse. A quarter century later, that stalwart faith has come to seem as old-fashioned and disappointing as the generation that held...
...ruins of his home-town square. Filled with a deep if obscure faith in the future, he marries Elisabeth and goes back to war, only to be killed by some innocent but suspicious Russian peasant prisoners when he frees them. For Ernst, and for the reader, all is finally quiet on the Eastern Front...