Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sinks now into a terrible calm...
...with whites. But where it has been well tried, as in east Texas or northern Georgia, there has been relatively little friction after the initial cultural shock has worn off. Politicians are, however, again arousing passions, private white academies are proliferating, and resistance to more integration is growing. Such calm advice as that of Alabama Superintendent of Education Ernest Stone is sorely needed. Says he: "If they'll let me keep the public school system, I'll crawl on my belly and eat grass and crow until doomsday." Studies of Southern integration show that black children profit academically from...
Page was determined to win his match with Terrell and he tried several stalling ?ac?ies before the match to assert his dominance on the court. Terrell, on the other hand, remained calm and rushed to an early lead on perfectly placed deep smashes and three-wall nicks...
...Miss Fonda's performance is perfect-there is no other word for it. Her acceptance of the lechery and cruelty around her as the only reality is entirely convincing. Whether she is taunting another contestant or ridiculing kindnesses of her partner or even lighting a cigarette (with all the calm of a speed freak), Fonda hits us hard with the indisputable rightness of her behavior. It is one of the best existential anti-hero roles of all time, and she never falters in her handling...
MARK ROTHKO'S paintings lead you into calm thought, into an atmosphere of color, that dissolves any word attempting to describe it. From surrcalistic forms his images evolved into monumental rectangles that hover on the canvas. His color is subtle and strange. Part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, his work differed radically in tone and form from the others, like Jackson Pollock and William de Kooning. The simplicity of his rectangles foresaw the purity but not the hardness of the images of minimal...