Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liza H. Gold '80 also said she has "been exposed to stronger drugs here" than in her "quiet suburb in Jersey," but that most of her drug experience, as that of most Harvard students, has been confined to marijuana...
Justice was served last week on the quiet banks of the Potomac. In his first public appearance since he resigned from the Supreme Court in November 1975, William O. Douglas, 78, attended the ceremonies dedicating to him the 20,200-acre Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park. The hundreds gathered in his honor needed no reminder that it was Douglas who spearheaded a campaign to save the 184-mile towpath along the C&O canal from becoming a highway-in 1954 he led conservationists on an eight-day hike from Georgetown to Cumberland, Md., to publicize the cause...
Richard Fisher was another close friend of Beth's. Sometimes she wondered why they got along so well. She was quiet and gentle and had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. He was brash, selfish and ambitious. He had decided to be a lawyer in eighth grade, and Beth suspected that he really wanted to be a senator, if not the president. But despite his straight and narrow career plans, he had an awful lot of trouble dealing with his personal life. Once every two or three months, he would call Beth and spew...
...would anyone in their right mind want to row? At 6 a.m., I honestly don't know. By 7:30 however, one can begin to appreciate crew as a sport. It can almost be serene, if the cox ever stays quiet long enough. The boat glides through the still water creating ripples that roll off into the distance...
...learn, for instance, that the Chicago apartment of Ebony Publisher John H. Johnson has walls of leather, floors of petrified wood and a Jacuzzi whirlpool in every bathroom. Such ostentation, we are told, is frowned upon by the black old guard, who prefer the quiet good taste of Sag Harbor summer houses and Episcopal church services. That the black rich unbridgeably divide themselves into old and new money seems to come as a surprise to Birmingham, whose naivete in such matters -whether real or feigned-quickly becomes cloying. After ten years of traveling among a growing list of ethnic elites...