Quiet revolutions are happening.
And Leroy Carr led that revolution, smooth voice, piano, fine suits and all.
The digital revolution smoothed the way for King to write and publish more novellas, and he has been joined by a host of big-name authors, including Patricia Cornwell and John Grisham, who have released Kindle Singles.
The generalized multipole technique (GMT) is utilized to calculate rigorously the full-vector electromagnetic (EM) fields scattered from electrically large, perfectly conducting (PC) and penetrable bodies of revolution, of smooth but otherwise arbitrary geometry.
Few realistically believed that the passage of Egypt's revolution would run smooth.
This is less a revolution than a smooth succession.
With the news this past weekend that Vaclav Havel, the one-time Czech president, had died, I found myself recalling a scene back in 1989, when I was lucky enough to spend a week in Prague with Havel, the leader of what eventually became known as the "Velvet Revolution" -- the smooth, nonviolent, overthrow of Czechoslovakia's once-brutal communist leadership.
Now I think we're seeing that with smooth jazz in the digital revolution even though the traditional FM stations are what they used to be in any format, not only jazz.
Despite many wobbles, in the property market (see article) and elsewhere, this extraordinary revolution has been surprisingly smooth: there are, for instance, very few shanty towns of the sort you see in Brazil or India.
A soft revolution, but still a revolution.
