Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another explanation for the new Muskie tactics is gaining currency: that the calm, soft-spoken advisors who have guided Muskie through 20 years of Maine politics are being phased out of the political side of the campaign by the tough, cigar-chomping con men who always flock to the Democratic frontrunner. This crowd of hustlers, so artfully described by Norman Mailer in his portrait of the Humphrey campaign in 1968, is increasingly in evidence around Muskie, 1972's premier candidate of the Establishment. It could be that the George Mitchell's and Dom Nicoll's who so expertly aided Muskie...
...have tense, strained, expectant faces. And all these faces are directed towards the one spot of bright light in the dark, a spot whose neatness and order and placidity are emphasized by the chaos of cables and cameras and crewpeople surrounding it. It is the eye of the hurricane, calm and bright and perfect, and it is out of that calm bright perfection that a movie will blossom forth...
Leverett's George Haywood, a calm, unruffled puncher, meets Mather's Terry Brennan in the 155-pound finals today. Steve Hoslinger and Bob Garcia, both of whom survived their semifinal tests unmarked, will box in the upperclass 165-and 175-pound finals, respectively...
...dented landscape of bulges and arabesques, with gullies of shoulder blade and buttocks radiating from the central valley of the spine, into an image with the vast immobility of a mountain - abstracted to a point where its human quality is nearly lost, but pervaded by a strange, healing calm...
...whether they come too late to save the two Irelands from what Scholar-Diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien describes as the threat of "a common ruin, a sort of unity in the grave." The prospects are not encouraging. Even during a week of what these days is relative calm in Ulster, eight men were killed, 42 were injured and 28 bombs exploded...