Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike McGinnis, best known for his classic, The Selling of the President 1968, McPhee is not a journalist. He is rather an impeccable craftsman, a quiet, careful worker whose pieces are intricate productions of exemplary quality. He is patient, willing to wait until surfaces dissolve and deeper meanings emerge. McPhee never really raises his perfectly modulated voice...
...shows us the majestic sights, the paralyzing winter, and the ever-present threat of loneliness and boredom that can drive a quiet little clergyman to publish a newsletter containing the sentence, "And what this INSANE crypto-Jewish riff-raff has planned for Homer and its citizens is no less than what the same antichrist Jewish riff-raff did to Russia. "He gives us details like a bar sign reading, "TAKE OFF YOU GODDAMNED BOOTS...
...didn't think it was going to be this big," Nick Thimmesch, an IOP Fellow and syndicated columnist, said. "I can say with assurance that it's been quiet and depressed in here," Maurice Ford '59, Lecturer on Law and Psychiatry, said...
With smiles as big as the profits they anticipate in the Reagan era, about 35 members of the Harvard Business School Reagan Committee celebrated the Republican landslide in a quiet and contented gathering at the B-School...
Perhaps both Johnson and Rockwell suffered because of their styles of play, composed and controlled, and their quiet manners. They don't stand out as much as St. Louis, Gregg or Fusco. But it's hard to believe that any coach would take Yale midfielder Liz Traver over Johnson, or the Dartmouth fullback who made first team ahead of Rockwell...