Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...less direct way, the narrative also tells a great deal about the metamorphosis of Chomsky as a political analyst. In his earlier American Power and the New Mandarins. Chomsky's language was calm, restrained, almost antiseptically reasoned; he was, one feels, especially careful to obey the intellectual ground rules of a political world-view which was otherwise alien and unacceptable to him. In At War With Asia, he rejects that constraint, and his language is less careful, wilder, and in many ways far more moving...
...down to Divinity Ave. to survey the damage on that warm night, and he was not the only one to view the scene with an equanimity approaching amused resignation. Indeed the whole crowd-radicals and jocks, professors and police-seemed to be light in spirit. Smatterings of laughter and calm, friendly conversations among strangers were the sounds that dominated; it could have been an outdoor summer cocktail party or a campfire, were it not for the lateness of the hour, the fire trucks, and the wreckage one could see by looking up at the third story CFIA windows...
...been more interesting to show Canaletto's view of Venice next to Guardi's Venice rather than placing a Tintoretto in between. And why is Vermeer's Young Woman between Claude Lorrain's turbulent Trojan Women and Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women? For chronology or for a calm between two storms? Why not pair the Vermeer with Holbein's portrait of a German merchant? Pairing would at least make the viewer question why the two paintings were paired. Even pointing out both artists' attention to detail, would be better than just letting the viewer admire the beauty...
...months of stewardship, the President has grown some deeper crevices around his eyes and his hair is a shade more silver. Those who watched Nixon during this time found him calm and confident, still with that element of cunning that has always been part...