Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zakes Mokae brings a sense of quiet majesty to the part of Sam--a role which he originated on Broadway, earning a Today Award for his powerful performance. Mokae presents a poised and insightful, but self-restrained Sam, fully aware that he, not Hal, has the more valuable lessons to impart. While there is a disturbing lack of tension when Sam first debies Hal's demand for proper respect, the climatic strength builds up quickly to Mokse's resigned yet underfeated pronunciation "Yes, sir, Master Harold...
They descended to a "heroes' welcome" that was everything public ceremonies in Cuba usually are not: brief, somber and quiet. An artillery corps band belted out a few revolutionary hymns, and women militia members goose-stepped across the tarmac of Jose Marti Airport. But President Fidel Castro, attired in tailored green fatigues, his beard noticeably gray, said not a word in public. He simply shook hands with the wounded, who apparently had been told to say nothing; several seemed too dazed to speak in any case, and one barely conscious man on a stretcher failed to recognize the Cuban...
...Harvard, the week was relatively quiet. The only activities here were a speech last Sunday by former Massachusetts congressman Father Robert Drinan and Wednesday's "Star Wars" debate between Edward Teller and Nobel laureate Hans Bethe...
...particularly well-connected Harvard official says of the quiet government professor and associate dean for undergraduate education: "Henry [Rosovsky] has been grooming him. I assume that if he wanted it, he would be one of the leading candidates...
...year-old Verba has also gotten notice for being a general University Hall troubleshooter, able to make his influence bear on issues no by blustering but by hard work and quiet persuasiveness...