Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French Indochina war, landed in time to witness the media circus that greeted the troops on the beach. "The Marines showed admirable restraint," says Wilde. He tells the story of one U.S. trooper, faced with a particularly irritating photographer who refused to obey orders to lie down and keep quiet, finally fingering the trigger of his M-16 and asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing thugs, pesky mosquitoes and static-stricken telephone lines. "Nearly every correspondent...
Coexisting with Ashbery's desire for privacy, however, is the desire to continue, to keep talking, to keep communicating, as an exemption from endings or from death. Facing death as others will not, Ashbery's speakers are out of place and quiet at the margins of their crowds, resigned or despairing even as they act out their roles in celebrations...
Maybe it's all three. But whatever the reason, the Harvard players seem unusually quiet as they approach their showdown with Dartmouth...
Enter John Whitley, a quiet-spoken Louisiana native with a lazy smile, whose cowboy hats and elephant-hide boots make more of an impression than his low- key manner. In just 32 months, he has turned Angola around, relying on little more than his sense of decency and fairness. The number of stabbings, hangings and escape attempts has dropped dramatically. The malaise has lifted. Security officers say Whitley has improved communications between the prisoners and the 1,545-member staff. Inmates credit Whitley with providing new educational and recreational programs. Most important, inmates feel they have an advocate in Whitley...
...elegant, doleful man named Miroslav Jancic, poet and former diplomat, introduces himself. Sarajevo is a concentration camp, he says in quiet anguish. "How do you eat?" I ask. "Not well," he says. "This shirt used to fit perfectly." He inserts two fingers between his neck and the buttoned white shirt collar. Possibly the worst crime of the war -- worse even than the ingenious atrocities that are the specialite de la maison of the Balkans -- is the systematic starvation of entire populations by the Serb fighters surrounding cities like Tuzla and Srebrenica and Sarajevo...