Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peace & Quiet. With no sign of recurring cancer, and no indication that Dulles' diverticulum had perforated (which would spill the bowel contents into the abdominal cavity, set up a life-threatening infection), the doctors saw no need for surgery. They gave Dulles antibiotics to knock out the infection in the diverticulum and an antispasmodic to keep the gut still, put him on a low-residue diet to reduce its work. Beyond that, all the Secretary needed was bed rest and some unwonted peace and quiet...
...help quiet his preperformance jitters and tune up his musical perception, German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau packs his luggage with a few tested literary tranquilizers: some volumes of poetry, selected detective stories, classics such as Crime and Punishment. As he wound up his third U.S. tour last week on the West Coast, nobody thought to ask him whether he was stoking his emotional fires on Donne or Dostoevsky or Dashiell Hammett. What mattered was that he was in top vocal form, and that meant that he was giving his audiences the most moving performances of German lieder to be heard...
...engineering, soon switched to physics. His first big administrative task after World War II: organizing the successor to the institute's wartime Radiation Laboratory, which had been chiefly responsible for the development of radar, under a new title-the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He became known for a quiet manner, for almost painfully earnest efforts to resolve clashing points of view, and for a broad understanding of how to bridge the shifting boundaries between scientific disciplines...
...white birch tree near a brook sat a young man writing poetry. Occasionally, when the words on paper somehow refused to echo the music in his mind, he wept. The place was Molodi, a village 38 miles from Moscow, and the time was the year of peace 1913. The quiet gardens surrounding his parents' summer house, legend had it, had once served as a battlefield for the Czar's Cossacks and Napoleon's retreating French. Near by, graves dotted the ground...
...Russian hors d'oeuvres) and repeated toasts, Pasternak holds open house for bright young artists and intellectuals-or did until the Nobel Prize fracas. French, German or English may be spoken (Pasternak is fluent in all three). Pasternak asserts his aloofness from the Marxist world around him with quiet and kindly dignity. Once, in a conversation with a Swedish professor, he started to make some critical comment about Communism, then suddenly interrupted himself. "Possibly you are a Communist," he solicitously asked his caller. "Am I hurting your feelings...