Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different tone and temper. The new century seemed to be the new frontier, and predictions about what it would bring were rampant. Many were accurate, from airplanes to television to freeways to disposable bottles. There were some howlers as well, including the forecast that autos would make streets as quiet as country lanes, that there would be no trees left in America by 1920, and that by the end of the 20th century, blacks would constitute about two-thirds of the U.S. population...
...noteworthy that a mere generation after someone got the notion it isn't right to persecute people for their sexual orientation -- a thing no more easily changed, it turns out, than Martin Luther King's skin or Gloria Steinem's gender -- there is quiet recognition among a large segment of the country, and even the conservative business world, that, hey, most people are straight, some people are gay, and it's really not that big a deal. Sometimes it's even pretty funny...
...wonder what's happened since then--to Adams and to us. Since the huge randomization of last year's sophomores, transvestites and smokers are indeed growing scarcer as students clad in brightly colored oxford shirts make their quiet entrance onto the Adamsian stage...
Occasionally, a track on the album shows some force. A danceable beat gives "Bonfires Burning" a welcome sense of freedom, and the harmonica on "Autonomous" works. On the title track, a thick texture and understated vocal style create a quiet intensity which the rest of the album never quite achieves...
...Erin Maher, who had been quiet for much of the game, nailed a trio of treys to clinch the victory for the Crimson...