Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know it. Of course, there are the minority groups: anyone who lives in Bedford Stuyvesant or the South Bronx cannot fail to want change. But most of the city is not the South Bronx--it is Flatbush and Canarsie, where the people like their Yankees hot and their politicians quiet. And most of all, it is places like Elmwood, where the people don't want anything out of politicians as long as the bars open on time...
DIED. Mason Welch Gross, 66, former president of Rutgers University (1959-71); after a long illness; in Red Bank, N.J. A critic of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, Gross maintained a quiet campus during the '60s era of protests...
...Tosteson is willing to specify the lines of research he will pursue, he is still quiet on his plans for the Medical School. New deans who have ideas about making changes have to work slowly if they want to succeed at all. Time will show what the dean will accomplish...
...pathetic defense of the Fox Plan in the Independent, 10/6/77, notwithstanding.) It is most encouraging now to see that everyone else agrees with us about Fox's incorrectness about both means and ends. We were beginning to wonder if our perceptions were distorted--after all, it was so quiet last year when he was doing in the Quad. Robert Sapolsky...
...mavericks among us always have a way of standing out from the rest of the crowd. Whether we react with ridicule or quiet admiration, we can rarely ignore them. The story of Harold L. Humes Jr. '54 has all the features commonly associated with the life of a maverick, a man who insists on swimming upstream. He has unorthodox theories, an unusual physical appearance, and has often been the focus of sensational charges. But his case has failed to attract the kind of interest usually directed toward men of his temper. It is even more difficult to account...