Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seeking to quiet those fears, the Ad ministration reportedly assured the Thatcher government that it would side with the British if all prospects of talks with the Argentines broke down. Meanwhile, Haig was not yet ready to give up his efforts to find a way out of a developing crisis between two nations both convinced they are right on a matter of honor and principle. - By John Nielsen. Reported by Frank Melville/London and Gavin Scott/Buenos Aires
Cross, of course, warmly acknowledges Gavin's part in all this. But he stresses repeatedly that hard, quiet work will always bear fruit, and although the administration has other concerns now, Harvard cannot turn its back on the department forever...
...York Times, the work are highly crafted. In stylistic terms, Hoagland's reputation as one of the foremost essayists working is well deserved, he has a terrifically readable idiom of his own fashioning at once colloquial, rhythmic and incredibly even. His writing gives a sense of quiet passion of devotion to the minutiae both of his subject and of his prose...
SOMETIMES NATURAL DEATH is a slow process. Life, colors, and images march away from you; you watch them and reflect. If you are lucky, or particularly appreciative, the aftertaste is a quiet joy in the withdrawal--each dream you remember enters your mind, becomes evident, and trails away just as you're beginning to taste...
...poems was released after Wright's death--however, it is worth nothing that the manuscript was virtually complete when he died in 1980. The poems seem to have been written by someone who knew he would die, but they convey an appreciation of life that is at once quiet and fierce, a rare zeal that comes only from knowing life well...