Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JAKE BAKER DOESN'T look like the kind of guy who would tie a woman by her hair to a ceiling fan. The slight (5 ft. 6 in., 125 lbs.), quiet, bespectacled sophomore at the University of Michigan is described by classmates as gentle, conscientious and introverted. His high school librarian, his 4-H adviser, the mother of the children for whom he baby-sat in Boardman, Ohio, all stand ready to attest to his moral fitness. At the university, where he majors in linguistics, he maintained a 3.2 average. Until two weeks ago, he'd never been accused...
...that he invariably gave the men he was supposed to hate his best lines. He saw the folly, and the frailty, of everyone around him. Thus adulterers come to feel compassion for the husbands they're cuckolding; victims see the human side of their criminal tormentors; Fowler in The Quiet American comes to mourn the death of his rival in love and opponent in politics (schadenfreude in reverse, you could say). Even when he was writing wartime propaganda for the British government, Greene described an Englishman's shooting of a German lieutenant-and then finding in the dead...
...Republican strategist William Kristol, Quayle's former chief of staff. ``That's sort of a poignant irony.'' Yet last Tuesday, even as he discussed his campaign themes, Quayle sounded wary of the personal sacrifices. Some friends believe his hospitalizations may have tempered his ambitions. ``It's so nice and quiet here,'' he said, as snow dusted the trees along the country lane where the Quayles live. ``On Saturday mornings I like to come down early and read in the den. It's so wonderful and peaceful that I just get lost in it.'' Then he added, ``When you get into...
...those few who had their noses to the grindstone say that it's often easier to get work done in the quiet confines of a library then at home...
...recent influx of short-term visitors means that residents like Sullivan are hard-pressed to find a reasonably priced loaf of bread in what used to be the center of a quiet residential district...