Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those eight days the center was the White House warren, where he roamed in the cool and very calm corridors from his hideaway in the Executive Office Building to his small study, to the Oval Office, into the Rose Garden, to the staff quarters, on over to the mansion. But the outside world was let in only in controlled doses. He had the reports and memos of his men on the crisis itself. He relied on his own special news summary. "I did not want the hot words of television. Anyone watching television would have thought that war was declared...
MOST presidencies develop their own interior rhythms, cycles of public motion and private labor, of crisis and calm. Last week Richard Nixon began a new round of intense activity. At summer's end, congressional elections loomed in the middle distance, and for the first time Nixon saw his popularity in opinion polls dip below 50%. Campuses were reopening, bringing uneasy possibilities of violent dissent. The auto strike diluted optimism that the economy was at last beginning to right itself (see BUSINESS). And in the Middle East, earlier hopes for peace were rapidly unraveling. Nixon moved almost simultaneously...
...Quaker program since Nash's arrival. He is the master tactician, never panicking, highly analytic-and thus inspires the highest confidence in his oarsmen, win a race, there's no question about it," says senior Charlie Hamlin. "His stress on style and conditioning as well as the calm, rational attitude he takes has convinced us that if we row our best race we'll be sure, or almost sure...
...within the calm of the Yard in early September, there exists a second, separate peace of mind. Harvard undergraduates have inhabited this inner sanctum, this zonky womb, since 1640; and at the end of spring term year after year, the sudden departure of each freshman class-themselves and their books causes, their broken freshman furniture and egos-gives rise to the spirits of past classes who gradually, carefully, reclaim their former abodes, not to be dislodged before the Fall...
Nonetheless the move seemed scarcely calculated to calm the growing dissent in the Catholic Church or to convince the faithful that it is becoming more responsive to the times. Such criticism, the Vatican believes, misses the point. When "the most sacred areas of Christian life are being threatened," a spokesman explains, "the Pope is reminding the world that there is value in certain ancient Christian ideals as a counterweight to creeping secularism...