Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modest Plan? "I have thought a great deal about the overpowering problem that . . . haunts all our minds," said Churchill. "My prime thought is to simplify." Churchill's simplification was that "the world needs patience. It needs a period of calm rather than vehement attempts to produce clear-cut solutions...
...from another city. This executive reluctance-something which has done the superintendent no harm at all in the years since O'Dwyer tumbled from public esteem-was understandable enough. So was O'Dwyer's final decision. Jansen has all the basic virtues. He is a strong, calm, kindly man, able to soak up work like a sponge, make endless speeches and never offend anyone. He understands the school system, its people, its aspirations. He is not a crusader, a scholar or a showman. He still likes and understands children...
Warehouses & Mops. New York's tall (6 ft. 3 in.), calm. Cadillac-borne School Superintendent William Jansen presides over a plant, a payroll and a complicated executive bureaucracy which might startle even a Detroit motormaker. The school system owns and operates 816 schools (which, with warehouses, shops, and twelve office buildings, have a total replacement value of $2 billion), a 20-acre farm and a Liberty ship (on which selected high-school students are trained as seamen, marine engineers and stewards...
...nearly 35 years by poverty but prepared promptly to sacrifice a hard-earned medical reputation to an audacious theory. Freud was quarrelsome, prone to tantrums when crossed. Once, opposed in an argument by Carl Jung, he fell on the floor in a dead faint. Far from being a "calm scientist," he deliberately sought out the extremes of love and hate. Observing that all the men he respected had "a characteristic manner," he made a mannerism of his "native tendency to uprightness and honesty"-and threw it in the face of the world to take or leave...
...McCarty was a quiet man. He tried for 16 years to make his calm voice heard above the clatter of Florida politics. He was also a stubborn man and, as the mortal enemy of Florida's avaricious dog-track lobby, he finally got himself elected governor, and set himself to the job of cleaning up after Governor Fuller Warren. He promised the citizens of Florida that his administration would not be one of "sounding brass or tinkling cymbals...