Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive to the Petersberg Hotel from the airport, a few anti-Brezhnev slogans appeared. In general, the mood was calm. That may have been because the security precautions in Bonn were the most stringent in the history of the Federal Republic. At least 6,500 police and border guards patrolled the Rhine-side capital; Brezhnev's temporary residence at the refurbished Petersberg was surrounded by guards. Only three mass demonstrations were authorized by the cautious local police-one organized by the pro-Brezhnev German Communist Party (D.K.P.) and two by right-wing groups protesting the visit...
Schwarz-Bart sets the foundations for his novel far away from Guadeloupe, in the West Africa of the Diolas. They live "in a calm and intricate estuary landscape, where the clean water of a river, the green water of an ocean, and the black water of a delta channel mingled -- and where, so it is said, the soul was still immortal." Their culture is joined to the elements of nature which allow them to live, and their history follows a seasonal cycle. Ancestors are perpetually reborn, and the traditions they established are honored. The community is so constant...
Ever since its founding in 1852, Antioch College has been a maverick. It was a pioneer in admitting women and blacks, adopting work-study methods of education and including students on policymaking committees. Now that relative calm has returned to most American schools, Antioch is still out of sync. Its main campus in rural Yellow Springs, Ohio, has been shut down for three weeks, and it is so divided by factional strife that many students and teachers question whether the college can survive. Says one disgruntled faculty member: "In the '50s, Antioch was considered one of the leading colleges...
...quite clear. After talking with the astrologer, I think I understood why the marshal is so calm in the face of the advancing enemy. He has been promised five good years, so why should he negotiate with Prince Sihanouk and the Communists? After all, it's not in the stars...
Ramrod-straight, sober-faced, patrician, calm: he was almost the Hollywood image of an American ambassador. For six exhausting years he exercised more authority than most of his diplomatic colleagues ever dreamed of possessing. Always immaculate, even in Saigon's long, humid afternoons, always self-possessed, even in the face of deliberate snubs from the South Viet Nam government, Ellsworth Bunker, for better or worse, was at the epicenter of the longest and most difficult war in American history...