Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intimacy starts with the catalogue which gives a full, personal account of Winthrop's life. It makes good if somehow sad reading--the story of a quiet Victorian son of an old New England family, his secluded life and his single passion for collecting...
...America's land war in Asia enters its fourth year, what was once merely strange now becomes somehow menacing. To many anti-war students, the quiet presence of ROTC on the Harvard campus appears as a recent and insidious intrusion of the warmakers, an ill-conceived alliance between the University and the war in Vietnam. Thus even when the students in Mallinckrodt began to compose a list of demands one night in October, someone suggested that they include the abolition of ROTC at Harvard. But although the suggestion seemed in keeping with the theme...
...spasm that routinely greets the arrival of military recruiters on college campuses, protesters occupied the offices of Columbia University's student placement agency for all of five minutes last week-time enough for them to perform a few customary acts of vandalism. Then the quiet of the midyear exam period returned...
...Four years ago, the Holy See announced an elaborate formal agreement with Hungary that was supposed to mark the beginning of toleration for the country's 7,000,000 Catholics. But priests remained jailed, and episcopal appointments remained obstructed. Only last week, as a result of months of quiet negotiating (and Hungary's embarrassment over its support of the Czech invasion), did the agreement begin to bear some small fruit...
...Fair Lady, Two for the Road); and Dr. Andrea Mario Dotti, 30, handsome Italian psychiatrist whom she met on a Roman holiday last July; she for the second time (her 14-year marriage to Actor Mel Ferrer ended in divorce two months ago), he for the first; in a quiet civil ceremony held near her home in Merges, Switzerland...