Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy has become an issue in the elections, with unforeseeable consequences. Smith is doing his best to prevent, or at least postpone a showdown between church and state. He has promised to face the problem raised by the Catholic hierarchy "in the cool, calm atmosphere of the post-election period"-when he hopes to have a new five-year mandate to do as he pleases...
...addressed himself directly to the problem at all-and he still has not spoken out on the broader aspects of civil rights. While the black community is far from silent, its leaders have sounded comparatively subdued in the face of growing white indifference or hostility. Yet this relative calm exists on the surface only; it is largely an illusion. Blacks are asserting a new sense of pride, self-reliance-and impatience. Economically, they have made considerable progress. But this progress is most impressive in comparison with the blacks' past condition, not in comparison with white achievements. The black sense...
...were bracing himself against a brisk wind. His long tapered fingers shape the air with the aristocratic command of a symphony conductor, and his voice has a resonant precision that quells any incipient coughers in the audience. Psychically, his stage personality is one of intensely contained, almost glacial calm. He understates like distant rolling thunder. Even now, many blacks are playing the professional Negro on stage, parody Uncle Toms or militant minstrels, and thus catering to the applause and approval of guilt-intoxicated whites. Gunn never does this. At 40, he has an assured masculinity that lies in his bones...
...comparison, Detroit's Wall of Dignity is calm and restrained. Painted primarily by Chicago Artist Bill Walker, it faces a rubble-strewn lot on Mack Avenue in Detroit's East Side slums, and brings to the residents a saga of the black man's history from ancient Egypt to LeRoi Jones' exhortation: "Calling all black people. Calling you urgent...
...Columbia Eagle plowed through the calm waters of the Gulf of Siam, the emergency whistle shrieked the signal that all seafarers dread: "Abandon ship...