Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walked around with a wealth of knowledge about what was going on in Africa and other parts of the world," Griffin says. "He was a more quiet person, not into rabble rousing speeches...
...sexuality and others suggested they bury his respirator. It was not that they were ill-intentioned, as Abraham Verghese points out in My Own Country (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23); it was simply that AIDS, to say nothing of homosexuality, was something that happened somewhere else. For a quiet Bible Belt town of dance halls and churches (72 of them), the disease was an unwanted foreigner...
...sophisticated evaluation of Bernstein's music is also missing from Leonard Bernstein. Burton usually cannot find his own words to describe a piece, so most of the critical burden is borne by contemporary reviewers whom the author quotes without qualification. To describe Bernstein's neurotic, distasteful 1983 opera A Quiet Place, Burton relies on an early statement of the composer's: "If I can write one real moving American opera that any American can understand (and one that is, notwithstanding, a serious musical work) I shall be a very happy man." Writes Burton: "It had taken him 35 years...
...quiet of suburban Los Angeles, Moosa Hanoukai picked up a pipe wrench and bludgeoned his wife Manijeh to death. When the businessman did not contest the facts, prosecutors assumed they had an easy second-degree murder conviction. But Hanoukai's attorney James Blatt mounted this defense: his client was a victim of husband battering and 25 years of abuse. Furthermore, because of the stringencies of an Iranian-Jewish culture, Hanoukai felt trapped: he killed Manijeh because he was not allowed to divorce her. The jury empathized and found Hanoukai guilty only of voluntary manslaughter. Instead of 15 years to life...
During the dinner my wife and I set up for that purpose, she made one of the quiet but definitive remarks at which she excelled. Spender had asked her what she regarded as her biggest achievement. "Well," she said without hesitation, "I think that my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that...