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That is not all the author gets just right. The year may be 1948, but the plantation manners are circa 1848. There is an ominous courtesy between the races. The whites are soft-spoken and patronizing. The blacks reply with exaggerated deference and little eye contact. Few writers have caught this routine indignity as well as Gaines. Fewer still have his dramatic instinct for conveying the malevolence of racism and injustice without the usual accompanying self-righteousness...
...Professor of History at Merton College, Oxford and cousin to the enigmatic Xan. A revolutionary cell, outraged by the injustices perpetrated by the Warden, approaches Faron to ask him to use his influence with his cousin. His mission comes to naught, but he falls gushingly in love with a soft-spoken revolutionary, and vows to help her change the world...
...perfect child who once wanted to be a priest is grown up and, despite the Italian cut of his suits, still looks as if his mother dresses him in the morning and tousles his hair before sending him off. Critics think the soft-spoken Stephanopoulos has insufficient heft to speak for the President; yet this brooding, dark presence has a quiet authority. His power whisper makes people lean into him, like plants reaching toward...
...quarters changed, Yale looked prepared to break through, to finally score its first touchdown in 15 quarters. Santos, the soft-spoken kid from Southern California, wasn't prepared to let that happen...
Overseeing this ambitious effort was production director Brian O'Leary, who admits, "It's definitely been a nail-biting experience. But I've always been good at creating order out of chaos." The soft-spoken Harvard business school graduate, who spends his free time these days rewiring his suburban New Jersey house, joined TIME in 1983 as assistant operations manager for our international editions. After a three-year assignment setting up and running our production plant in Singapore, and a successful stint as ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's first production director, O'Leary happily returned to TIME two years ago to assume...