Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the origin of a story idea, when it reaches print in the Monthly it bears the Peters imprint: well-documented, straightforward, calm-and tough. As his fellow muckraker I.F. Stone comments: "It's a responsible magazine. It doesn't go in for half-assed hysterics." The format fits the approach: the Monthly is about the size of National Geographic but as deliberately subdued in appearance as the Geographic is eye-catching. The magazine's staff of six is talented and young; its co-managing editors, Taylor Branch and John Rothchild, are in their...
...Polaroid's ad campaign- designed to dispel notions of apartheid- is only an attempt to calm public outrage," said David Otsen of the African Research Group, a Cambridge-based study organization, at an M.I.T. teach-in last night in the student union...
...pockets of charcoal corduroy pants, an old dark sweater and shirt, dark work-shoes of worn leather, short, dark-complexioned with an eight o'clock shadow, thinning but bushy black hair, with some wrinkles on his forehead after 43 years of facing the desperate moments head on, eyes sad, calm, laughing-he sidles up to the front and leans like a cowboy against the lectern. He crosses his feet...
...counts. There had been so much trouble on the set of Scott's new movie that Director John Huston had resigned and an actress had been fired. Then there was the star's legendary capacity for booze, brawls and belligerence. Would he be in the mood for calm, candid talk? As a rule, said Cronin, "Scott does not look for a fight, but things build up in him or around him until something has to give...
With increasing zealotry, English Professor H. Bruce Franklin, 37, has sought to shatter the uneasy campus calm at Stanford University. In the process he appears to have reached the blurry outer limits of U.S. academic freedom and is in real danger of becoming the first tenured professor ever to be fired by a major American university for political actions that led to violence...