Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead role, co-author MacGrath is good, although not up to the high standards of the rest of the cast. It seemed to me that she used a bit more restraint than her roll called for. Without displaying aloofness for a calm, understanding interpretation, she misses the other extreme by not appearing so distressed as she might be when confronted with people who doubt her tale of reincarnation...
...Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were awaiting from science, and which the present human generation is awaiting from it. It is a reply which bursts forth from mature and calm consideration of only one aspect of the universe, namely, its mutability. But this is already enough to make the entire human race, which is the peak and the rational expression of both the macrocosm and the microcosm, become conscious of its Exalted Maker, realize that it belongs to Him . . . and then, falling on its knees before His Sovereign Majesty, begin to invoke...
...youth is taking its upsetting certainties with extraordinary calm." To us, those certainties are apparently the natural order of things, therefore not too upsetting, but the word should be "apathy," not "calm...
...some close calls ... at midnight occasionally I'd suddenly recall, sleepy and half ready for bed, that I had not taken next day's column down to the newspaper office. So I'd dress again, and take it down-often on a cold, snowy, rainy, blustery, calm, moonlit night . . . I don't know the reason why I missed today's deadline-but it had better be a darned good one ... I've busted a perfect record...
...heat. It was "like someone had sneaked up on me and breathed heavily on my skin," said a G.I. They slowly counted three, turned around and looked at the huge fireball seven miles away (see NEWS IN PICTURES). It was bright red, and churning. Big Brother kept up a calm, steady patter, explaining what was happening. The blast wave rustled by. One paratrooper confusedly stood up too soon. The returning wave knocked him flat. A deep, sharp "whoomp" echoed and rumbled off the mountain walls...