Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the world was discovering once more that it takes only a brief spell of quiet to revive the ancient animosities and divisions that have made Arab unity largely fiction ever since the Prophet's heirs fell out more than 1,300 years ago. Egypt was embroiled with its neighbors-the Sudan, Libya, Tunisia-as well as with others who, fearing the power of Nasser's propaganda, dared not defy him publicly. In Iraq, whose revolutionary regime seized power in the name of Arab unity, the ruling officers quarreled, and the uprising, far from ending the historic...
...even such an impoverished sand kingdom as Jordan-is being put to the test. Less than three weeks after British troops left, the confident young King Hussein planned to take off for a three-week "convalescent leave" and vacation in Europe. The question was whether his nation would stay quiet in his absence, under tight police control inside and the counterbalancing of rival ambitions outside. The Middle East was showing no signs of coming to rest...
...when a soft light bloomed on the reclining Violetta, to the resignation of Dite alia giovine and the yearning of Parigi, O cara, Callas held her audience in a kind of hushed trance. Her tones were rock firm, aglow with a dozen nuances of passion, from hectic gaiety to quiet sadness. Callas scored an even bigger triumph in Cherubini's Medea. Whirling her heavy cape alternately like a regal robe, a witch's hood or a pair of bat wings, Callas managed a breath-taking range of emotion: she seemed to caress the air when pleading tenderly with...
...Sensations. The new jets fly ahead of their engine noise, are so quiet that American plans to play hi-fi music-so free of vibration that there is virtually no feeling of motion. They will fly above most bad weather...
...COIN, by Pierre Boulle (281 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), is another one of those novels that try to prove that good and kind Americans are really dumb Americans. Ironic Frenchman Boulle (The Bridge over the River Kwai) is too blasé to join forces openly with embittered Briton Graham (The Quiet American) Greene, but he makes it plain in his book that there is no place for naive, warmhearted U.S. do-gooders in cold-war country. True to his Gallic instincts, he makes his American boob a woman. Patricia is the wife of a Frenchman who expertly runs a rubber plantation...