Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he doesn't say so, there's probably a little more to it than that. Life on Long Island is, to put it mildly, a little quiet for a man who, after a few beers, tells with relish a story of how he convinced a Chinese chieftain in a Viet Minh controlled village to sell 1200 pigs to the French army. The chief, he concludes, wanted to keep things quiet, and a few extra silver bars--"oil money," he says, rubbing his fingers--"didn't hurt either...
...relaxed place to take a bottle of booze and a date for some quiet conservation. It costs half a buck, and the abundant free soft drinks and the graceful decor (that maybe only Dudley House could provide) are easily worth that price. The performers are worth much more...
Sharing the stage with Hammond is a quiet guitar-strumming singer, Matt Alexander. His songs are mainly his own, with a heavy Paul Simon influence seeping through. Blending his thoughts on Cambridge mornings with warnings about love, Alexander's compositions are pleasant enough, if not terribly memorable...
...motto is, "don't rock the boat," don't get the citizens upset, keep the taxes down, keep stories out of the newspapers, and keep things quiet...
...there have been few cases of actual brutality, but the complaints of harassment are understandable, considering that the chief pressures his men to maintain order by the book, even where that book is irrelevant. What might be considered a disorder in a prosperous area might be only a quiet evening on ghetto streets. But the legalistic-style police go where the "offenses" are and arrest the "offenders." That means more Negroes in jail and more complaints of harassment...