Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...royal existence behind the moated walls of the 300-acre royal compound is well-cocooned and calm. Emperor and Empress rise early in their 15-room apartment in the small Fukiage Palace. Hirohito does not particularly enjoy coffee, but drinks it because he considers it an essential part of the Western breakfasts (toast, bacon and eggs or oatmeal) he has eaten since his first trip to Europe 50 years ago. After his meal, he is bowed out the door by the Empress and strolls to the new Imperial Palace, built in 1968 at a cost of $36 million to replace...
Last October the surface calm of Canadian politics was shattered following the kidnappings by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) of the British Trade Commissioner in Montreal, James Cross, and the Quebec Labor Minister. Fearful of the separatist-nationalist sentiment in French-speaking Quebec province, the Canadian government on October 16 invoked the War Measures Act, which suspended civil liberties and gave the police virtually unrestricted search and arrest powers...
Much of the story of Pierre Vallieres is now familiar, even outside of Quebec. But meeting him was an experience. The interview was in French, which two of the three of us spoke adequately. Vallieres's voice was calm, conveying intellectuality without arrogance, and combined with a sense of humility and humanity. The interview printed below indicates the clarity with which Pierre presents his analysis. What it does not adequately reveal is the humour in his nuances, nor the moving impression left with us of his courage...
After that book was published, Medvedev was fired from his job as head of the Obninsk radiological institute, 35 miles southwest of Moscow. Unable to find another job, he set about writing a calm, straightforward survey of the restrictions, censorship, and surveillance that oppress many Soviet intellectuals. This work too found its way to the West via samizdat (literally "self-publishing"), the literary underground. It was his authorship of that book, published in the U.S. this week by St. Martin's Press as The Medvedev Papers, which led directly to Medvedev's forced hospitalization last year...
Frantic Calls. The calm proved shortlived. In what became the most violent week in Saigon since the 1968 Tet offensive, scores of antigovernment and anti-American demonstrations broke out, bringing a rash of firebombings and rock-throwing incidents. The first incident occurred when U.S. Senator George McGovern, a presidential candidate and vigorous opponent of the war, arrived at a Saigon church to attend a meeting of a prison reform committee...