Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...football or put the shot. But he lifted weights and always tried so very hard. Everyone wished him well. He enlisted. . . the Marines. He had just returned from the DMZ. The transformation was electric. With his black mustache, he looked like Clark Gable, broad chest, flat waist, deep penetrating calm blue eyes that seemed bottomless. Sideburns, deep unhesitating voice. Marvin was a presence of energy, a star...
With glacial calm, Madame de Gaulle asked that news of the General's death be withheld "until I can notify my family." She quickly reached her daughter Elizabeth in Paris, who set out for Colombey with her husband General Alain de Boissieu. Son Philippe, a navy captain stationed in Brest, was more difficult to locate. As a result, Pompidou was not notified until 4 a.m., and it was not until 17½ hours after his mentor's death that he finally went on television. "General de Gaulle is dead," he said. "France is a widow...
...Raffaele Minichiello is a good, hardworking boy, a frightened boy," said Prosecutor Antonio Scopelliti. "Life took him from the small, calm town of Melito Irpino, where he was born, to the inferno of Viet Nam, and from the fields of Melito to the chaotic city of New York. We believe in the Minichiello who fought bravely in the rains of Viet Nam and earned a medal...
...announced his resignation. He is leaving partly because of a mild heart attack last summer, partly to gain relief from grueling 16-hour days, partly to end the frustrations of coping with Governor Ronald Reagan's majority on the board of regents. Above all, this fall's calm gave him a chance to leave without appearing to quit under fire and to return to his old job as professor of psychology and education at the University of Michigan. His exit confronts the troubled, nine-campus University of California with a second hard-to-fill vacancy. The other...
...skeptic, citizen, sentimentalist and night-prowling philosopher. He catches perfectly the queerness of the scene when he does reach the Bastille: "The fortress is being looted. From the high towers precious documents float down into the moat." He records the rainy grayness of Paris and the strange periods of calm when the Revolution catches its breath ("Most people lost interest . . . The price of bread continued to rise"). He sees the city's whores applaud a lynching "with their white hands, so expert at stimulating desire." He tries to turn his eyes away when a laughing mob drags a headless...