Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clanging of a flotilla of fire engines--about ten strong--cut through the quiet of a lethargic reading period afternoon yesterday, and students poured out of Lamont and other assorted sanctuaries to watch what should have been by all odds the blaze of the year...
Lecturing in Arizona, Novelist Erskine Caldwell set up his own bullyboy definition of literature, then admitted that he did not measure up: "Literature implies a graceful treading along a prescribed course and a conformity to the sensibilities of prejudiced minds. I am not quiet-spoken, and I do not have a velvet touch. I like to hammer, hammer, hammer, and make all the noise...
...nation whose literary life is wedded to the colleges, quiet, courtly Poet John Crowe Ransom has for years been one of literature's most influential college teachers. An ironist of edged eloquence, Ran som has published only a few dozen sharply tooled poems, but they are among the best written in the U.S. this century. A critic of high reputation, he has never allowed his views to fossilize; he can retreat with grace from an untenable position, or with great courtesy flay the hide off a literary wrongdoer...
...order of courtesy above us all ... He has kept before us the example of a classically educated intelligence . . . He is one of the first poets, in any language." Ransom has written poetry, one critic remarked admiringly, about "everything from Armageddon to a dead hen"; his language is quiet but barbed. Of a dead lady he wrote...
...party in the odd, poignant relationship that is the subject of the play, Robert Jordan has less to work with. But if the author has given him little personality, Jordan has enough and to spare of his own. He takes the part in his rumpled, boyish manner, and his quiet superbness goes beautifully with Miss Wylie's flam-boyant brilliance...