Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first homecoming had been spontaneously jubilant, as Poles in the millions turned out to greet a favorite son who had left for Rome eight months before as a Cardinal and come back as the first Polish Pope in history. The experience of standing shoulder to shoulder in quiet defiance of the country's Communist rulers had helped prepare the way for Solidarity's rise...
Bernstein's opera, A Quiet Place, is a disappointment...
...rather than helped him, especially as a writer of serious music. In 1963 there was the embarrassment of the "Kaddish" Symphony, with its outburst of adolescent admonishment of God; 1971 saw a Christianized version of the same material in Mass. The premiere last week of his new opera, A Quiet Place, while an improvement, did little to stem his creative decline...
...doctor and his wife; a funeral director; and, of course, Sam (Baritone Chester Ludgin). Balanchine's famous dictum that there are no mothers-in-law in ballet may not quite apply to opera, which is not mute, but the common sense behind it ought to be respected. A Quiet Place is too heavily populated, its relationships obscured by a wordy, awkward book that sinks whatever chance the opera had of being truly satisfying...
...days when you aspire to accomplish nothing more than watching water beads form on your lemonade glass, follow Long fellow to the legendary village smithy's haunts, the Blacksmith on Brattle St. This cafe features a quiet milieu and some of the Square's best pastries...