Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really interested in all the rhetoric. If they have to ride a bus, they just want to make sure that they can sit with their friends or where the bumps are best." Examining the strands of national policy in Washington, Jess Cook found no such mood of calm among the political elders, whose primary worry seems to be the votes of parents...
When such a "tipping point" can be avoided and schools are relatively calm, the achievement of whites does not decline and that of minorities improves. In Hartford's Project Concern tests have shown that black children gam up to 1.2 years' worth of reading skills in four months, while control groups of children left in the ghetto fall farther and farther below national averages. Since integration, reading scores have gone up for Berkeley primary children of all races, although not as rapidly for blacks and Chicanos as for whites and Asians. The problem for the slower students seems...
...Venable, the obsessed, patrician Southern matron, Jeannie Lindheim, as Catherine, is slightly less effective, perhaps because her character is less clearly drawn. The best of the minor characters is Mary Elizabeth Leach as Catherine's mother, a fluttery, weakminded old lady who only wants to keep things calm so that she can get part of Sebastian's estate...
...Picasso's suicide, and its hacked dislocation alarmed Braque, who compared the performance to "someone drinking gasoline and spitting fire." Perhaps it is too simple to say that Cubism "came out of" Demoiselles, for the raggedness, fury and inconsistencies of the canvas were alien to the spirit of calm inquiry that afterward pervaded Cubist painting. But Demoiselles was so extreme that it presented the artists in Picasso's circle with a coup d'etat against every visual convention they knew. It was a totally radical painting-so much so, indeed, that even Picasso withdrew slightly from...
...want people to wonder at what forces created him, terrible, vindictive, cold, calm man-child, courage in one hand, the machine gun in the other, scourge of the unrighteous--"an ox for the people to ride...