Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...packed JCR, combined with a number of broken plectra to render the instrument nearly useless. Hugh Wolff, the harpsichordist, somehow managed to play through the 70-bar cadenza at the end of the first movement, in the process inadvertently producing a number of truly bizarre harmonies. Wolff appeared remarkably calm and demonstrated a fine technique when not obscured by the instrument's problems. Given that the Bach was the first of two programs that same evening, the wisest decision would have been to abandon the harpsichord, switching to piano for the rest of the Bach as well as the entire...
Odious Lie. From the beginning, the Israeli government maintained an outward calm that made a convincing show of its self-confidence. Prime Minister Golda Meir went on the air in late afternoon to assure her countrymen that "grave losses have been inflicted on the enemy." Her voice was firm, but she spoke in more measured and deeper tones than usual. "We have no doubts as to our victory," she said. "But it is our belief that this renewal of Egyptian-Syrian aggression is an act of madness...
Sung in clean, resonant tones full of calm emotion, his music captivates, sounds as firmly rooted in earthy, American myth as Woody Guthrie, as evocative of restlessness and despair as early Dylan. And then he has to go and ruin it all with a reference to those "chiselers" who are "living off the fat of our great land...
...that U.S. bombs no longer fall over Indochina, it is crucial that Harvard not be seduced by the domestic calm into letting such crucial issues go unexamined. The CHUL should sponsor the ROTC poll...
...vice president for academic affairs at Columbia University, Oriental Scholar Theodore deBary (not a member of U.C.R.A.), raised the alarm as keynote speaker at the New York conference. "In the calm that has mysteriously come over our campuses," he said, "it may seem melodramatic still to speak of the 'university crisis.' " But, he added, a "creeping crisis from the neglect and erosion of general education" is getting worse. According to deBary, part of the trouble is that a shift in emphasis toward more and earlier career training has resulted in liberal education's coming out second best...