Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaped onto the stage and launched into an angry speech denouncing the injustice of the prison system and society at large. He asked anyone who did not want to join a revolt to leave the hall immediately. Only 150 inmates stayed. Warden U. Samuel Vukcevich arrived to try to calm the disturbance, but within minutes he and the guards were overpowered. The riot...
...Calm Strength. Which still leaves the perhaps irrelevant question: Can he act? Now Eastwood has neatly sidestepped the question by becoming a director. His first effort is the recent Play Misty for Me, in which he also stars as a disk jockey who gets involved with a psychopathic listener (played by Jessica Walter). His direction is better than might have been expected, and shows a solid gift for scenes of violence and tension (TIME...
...commanding figure at 6 ft. 4 in., but he moves languidly, speaks little and seems to get things done through sheer force of presence. Working for him on Misty, says Actress Walter, "I didn't know what he was like inside, but he had this wonderful calm strength that was very reassuring...
...search of better air or care. Eventually the strain proved too much. Eliot went off to a psychiatrist in Lausanne for three months in 1921, dropping Vivien in Paris and leaving their cat, "a very good mouser," with Poet Richard Aldington. He needed to learn, he explained, "to be calm when there is nothing to be gained by worry." When he came back, he brought much of The Waste Land with...
...past decade. He presently teaches at a city college in Chicago, lives in a working class black neighborhood on the city's South Side, and has spent the past several years organizing steel-workers in Gary, Ind. Lynd has been in NAM since its inception and his reputation and calm bearing were an important mediating force at the conference...