Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...meet that challenge, the Administration has made a massive and partly successful effort to restore calm and confidence. Both the politics and the economics of the slump depend heavily on mood. That mood improved considerably late last week with Wall Street's sharp, long-awaited rally (see BUSINESS). A more buoyant stock market cannot in itself right the basic imbalances of the economy. But if the rally is sustained, it will be a sign of confidence that the Administration's policies are beginning to work. Thus the national attitude would brighten rapidly-along with Republican prospects in November...
Surrounding the outwardly calm White House Oval Office that is the President's citadel is a symbolic battleground pocked with shell holes and scarred with trenches. The tactical objective of the attackers is the President's attention. The besiegers include great institutions and the meekest citizen. There are the representatives of the Federal Government itself: the Cabinet en bloc and as individuals, Senators and Congressmen, military chiefs, economic advisers, satraps of the independent and quasi-independent agencies...
Hiking Around Seattle. Raised as an only child in California and Washington State, Ehrlichman exudes the calm folksiness of the West. "I have never heard him raise his voice," says Cole. "He might say something like, 'Gee, I don't like the way that went,' but he never sounds excited." Friends concur, and one suggests that possibly his faith as a Christian Scientist has something to do with his steady optimism. The father of five and a dedicated family man, he has imbued his children with his own love of the outdoors, and before moving...
Seldom in U.S. history has it been so urgent that calm and reasoned voices be heard above the tumult and the shouting of a divided nation. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger provided such a voice last week in a speech to the American Law Institute. In it he counseled patience to the radical reformers and rebuked those who might be tempted to restore order at the expense of America's fundamental freedoms. Excerpts...