Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walks along public paths around the island's perimeter and hiking through the acres of woodlands and grassy clearings that are part of the Harvard properties," reads a brochure advertising scenic Sutton Island that was recently circulated by Harvard Real Estate to faculty members. The island, "a place for quiet retreat and enjoyment of nature," is the site of Harvard's Kendall and Paine Houses...
Young adds that he would like to make the Union a lot bigger and add more sound-proof practice rooms, more free space to accommodate the changing interests of freshmen, more quiet space and more eating space. But, lacking a magic wand and the necessary funds, Young does not see a way to accomplish these changes...
...clearly the quiet, embarrassed guys--on the coldest nights--who most need my quarters. But on a freezing cold night in March, with a thesis to finish and a chest cold to fight, it's easy not to feel like everyone I pass is a brother. There are only unwanted in-laws on nights like that. It takes all of my energy just to maintain an adequate dose of contempt for everyone I pass...
...public Gareth (Bob Toner) and his private side (Kevin Walker) surmount the demands of the difficult premise of the Winthrop House show, a drama-comedy written by Brian Friel. The public Gareth--Gar for short--is a quiet, unemotional guy who wonders whether his father will miss him when he leaves Ireland for Philadelphia. He was too shy to ask Senator Doogan (John Claflin) for the hand of his daughter (Laura Uyterhoeven). Now she's married to someone else...
Marlee Martin seems like the kind of girl you wanted to go out with in high school: short with a good body, and real quiet. But Hurt discovers the real truth--that she is a fireball of an individual who brandishes her deafness as a challenge to the rest of the world. Martin is actually deaf in real life, and to watch her develop an entire character without uttering a single word is truly amazing. It is also somewhat disheartening to think that she will probably never appear on film again...