Word: softspoken
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What are these objects meant to say or suggest? No use asking Hunt, the softspoken, bespectacled, conservatively tailored son of a Chicago barber, who graduated from the Chicago Art Institute's school in 1957, studied in Italy, and has in the past five years been hailed as one of the Midwest's most successful sculptors. Hunt dislikes being typed, dislikes having his work classified as either abstract or figurative, dislikes even having it pinned down as either "large" or "small." All that he is prepared to concede is that he spends at least eight hours a day pounding...
Early Doubts. "It's like a dream come true-it's almost unbelievable," says George Winston Lane, a senior at Chicago's virtually all-Negro Parker High School, who got letters of inquiry, many including application forms, from nearly 300 colleges. Modest and softspoken, George ranks fourth out of the 407 students in his class, is class president and a varsity wrestler. He considered bids from Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Brown and U.C.L.A.; he applied to Chicago, Northwestern, Loyola and Princeton. Accepted by all but Princeton, he chose Chicago because he plans to become a doctor...
...SONIDO NUEVO (Verve) is not a new sound at all but old-fashioned Latin dance music played by Vibraphonist Cal Tjader (Soul Sauce), along with half a dozen softspoken, hypnotic percussionists and a trio of growling, pulsating trombonists. What lifts the album to the top groove is the piano of Eddie Palmieri, whose syncopated rhythmic sallies are a quiet contrast to Tjader's smoothly bubbling vibes...
...students at the Jesuit-run University of Detroit, Father Lawrence Cross, 47, has long been something of a campus favorite. A softspoken, scholarly, almost humorless teacher, he was head of the university's sociology department and an active member of several civil rights organizations, including the N.A.A.C.P. and an interracial council that fought blockbusting real estate agents. Last week Father Cross's students and fellow priests were stunned when the Detroit papers front-paged the shocking report that he had gotten married-and more than that, to a former nun, 37-year-old Joan Renaud...
Died. Arthur Sears Henning, 89, dean of Washington's press corps, the Chicago Tribune's softspoken, acid-penned bureau chief from 1914 to 1949 and close associate of the late Publisher Robert McCormick, whose high-cholered, ultraconservative views he usually reflected; of pneumonia; in Washington Henning knew every President since Theodore Roosevelt, classified him a "outstanding," Woodrow Wilson as "irascible" and Calvin Coolidge, extraordinarily enough, as a man who in private "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...