Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second thing bothering him was the unstated assumption that since everybody else had come with a confession to make, the boy must have one too. From the start, even though he had been quiet, he had felt the group's curiosity about him. They were confessing themselves, and they wanted something from him; he was ten years younger that any of them--he probably would have a very exciting trip; it would be different from theirs--and they wanted to see it. He had seen them in their weakness; they wanted...
Then there was a long silence, but all the time the boy could feel hands everywhere on his body. His eyes were shut, but he felt John above him. John was leaning over him, and then the boy heard his voice, so strong, so quiet, so close, heard his voice like the voice of a lover lying next to him in bed. "For she's touched your perfect body with her mind...
...half hours yesterday afternoon, then dispersed promptly at 3:30 p.m. "Apparently, they are using a hit and run technique," an editor of the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal said yesterday. Terming the tactics "spontaneous picketing," he said that the militant black demonstration leaders are keeping their plans for tomorrow quiet and will disclose them only at the scheduled rallies during...
...even to Boston, was what we longed after. In the delicatessen, in the fire station, among the hoots of the boy scout troops lost on an outing, in the deep sad faces of the traffic cop, we longed for you New England, even for your snow with your different quiet, and different peace, and acceptance of these mysteries of cold and ice. The Long Island Expressway writhes in disbelief--it seems impossible that stupid dumb precipitation, which doesn't know Anybody, has no connections, has never worked its way up, could come between it and the City, the Life...
...bleary eyes close and open again. "You go to HARVARD, says the girl with boots from across the aisle. "I go to RADCLIFFE!" "You go to Radcliffe," says the girl next to us. "I go to Pembroke." The train chugs its mystery northward to the snow and the quiet of brick and cobble. "Hazen's, you see, is this restaurant where you can go and you know all these people are there and you go with your roommates at eleven o'clock and it's really great. I live in Adams House." The old eyes close...