Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Metal rides are smooth and quiet. They are also laced with corkscrew turns and, in some instances, huge loops. The supporting structure is made entirely of steel, and the vehicles resemble space shuttles, not carny cars. On the convoluted tracks of the metal coasters, the question is quite basic: Where...
Which rides are better? As in all things, it is a matter of taste. Loops and corkscrews probably offer the rawest thrills-unadorned, mind-bending, stomach-stretching terror. Sans a 360° turnover, however, metal coasters are somewhat tame-too quiet and too smooth, and lacking the wooden coaster's capacity to engage the eye and the ear. Riding a wooden roller coaster is like barnstorming in a biplane; a trip in a metal coaster is like flying to Cleveland in a jumbo jet. Both will take you where you want to go-a little bit out of your...
...unconscious-or is it semiconscious?-racism. The crowd pursuing the almost-heroin is composed entirely of black men, and their interest in sexually tormenting Ms. Bisset is at least as powerful as their greed for the drug. She is cast as a nice innocent kid trying to spend a quiet week in Bermuda with her boy friend. Out scuba-diving, they discover tantalizing clues to both treasures. Very soon she is being forced to strip in front of the assembled baddies, though she could not possibly conceal the object they seek -a large medallion-on her pretty person. A little...
...received into the Redemptorist order in the U.S., and only five years later was named head of the nation's Redemptorist missions. After two years he asked to be relieved of the administrative burden, which made him an unlikely candidate to be a bishop. But Neumann's quiet spiritual stamina appealed to Francis Kenrick, who had left Philadelphia to become Archbishop of Baltimore. When Neumann heard that Kenrick was recommending him as his successor in Philadelphia, he beseeched nuns to pray against such an appointment, which he considered "a grave calamity for the church...
...care to do anything about it. How many of us are willing to risk disciplinary action when the job market is tight? How many of us are willing to take a stand on a moral issue we consider important and protest? Or just take a stand and be quiet? Or, simply, how many of us consider any moral issue to be important? Jonathan Ratner is right in that students feel impotent in face of Harvard's institutional immobility and that we can only overcome our "politics of despair" by daring to try. But who will? --Federico Salas...