Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamburg. No one who has observed Acheson under the attacks of his critics and the stresses of his job during the past year can fail to admire his steady, cold-steel nerve. He has held himself aloof from the brawling. His staff know him as calm, sane, considerate. He has generally kept his sense of humor in a turbulent world, sometimes opens a window on a frosty...
...first feel intoxicated by the musical aroma of my subject, all the tones, all the characteristic motives are in my head, so that when the verses are finished and the scenes ordered, the opera proper is also finished for me and the musical treatment in detail is rather a calm and considered afterwork which the moment of real creation has preceded...
This now policy toward Square rallies has prevented a recurrence of the 1928 riot, during which policemen clubbed students and a paddy wagon was overturned. Today, police attempt to calm any gathering through sheer superiority of numbers: all off-duty officers are sent to the riot scene and infiltrate the student ranks. Then by breaking up individual fights, the police try to frustrate mass battles...
...Garbo: "She sits next to me and I notice that she's so nervous that her hand is shaking on the arm of the seat... It was her first trip ... I guess she'd never had any bum talk to her before like I did. She got calm . . . That Greta's wonderful. When you see her up close, she's really got a beautiful kisser. Real sharp chiseled features...
...elegant portraitists, Reynolds and Gainsborough, ruled the calm and decorous art world of 18th Century London. But there was also an opposition, most notably represented by young, deeply religious William Blake with his alternately angelic and demonic visions. Others in the opposition ducked the angels; they preferred...