Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gorbachev is outspokenly weary of criticism, from radical reformers and hard-line communists alike. Both sides hated and vilified him for years, he says, but offered no solutions. He calls on those who can solve Russia's problems to speak up and those who cannot to keep quiet. What passes for decisive leadership today, he says -- naming no names -- has done nothing to dampen continuing outbreaks of nationalist upheaval and ethnic bloodletting...
Perhaps the best illustration of this can be found in the best-selling novel about six days in the life of an English butler, The Remains of the Day. The book reads almost like a handbook of traditional Japanese values: a samurai- like loyalty to a master, a quiet and impenitent nationalism, a sense that self is best realized through self-surrender. Many of the scenes -- in which the butler speaks to his father in the third person, talks of "military-style pep talks" to his staff and resolves to practice "bantering" -- might almost be translated from the Japanese...
Kowles said the relative quiet on campus duringexam period "does not mean that these concernshave evaporated," adding that the Faculty needs tolook these problems...
Suddenly, the court is quiet. The talk stops and those dozing in the rear wake up. Sometimes, once a day maybe, reality intrudes here in this funnel of misery, where the unhappiness and despair of three cities is channeled. But the interest evaporates quickly enough. The license is suspended for 90 days, then she will be able to drive again. She will enroll in the treatment program. The next case, please...
...comes in many forms depending on the game and the position, and sometimes it hides behind quiet, unassuming players that look average, until you meet them on the field...