Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past year, a certain haze of orderly calm has descended upon the 77 Dunster Street offices of the Department of Afro-American Studies. The focal point of considerable controversy and internal dissension among concentrators and some faculty members for many years, the Afro department has experienced a relative cease-fire during the last twelve months--at least on the surface. Afro has begun to assume many features of a conventionally organized department: the introduction of general examinations planned for next year, the establishment of specific course requirements, and the cross-listing of department offerings in other sections of the course...
Though extremists were attempting to disrupt the election-in Barcelona two civil guards were killed and a Madrid power station was bombed-campaign violence was not widespread. On the whole, the 22 million Spaniards who are eligible to vote on June 15 seemed surprisingly calm. Many appeared more bewildered than enthusiastic about the rituals of democracy -early polls showed 25% of the voters undecided. That was not all bad. Given the passions of the past and the dangers of polarization, one foreign diplomat observed, "Spain probably does not need an emotional campaign...
...sophomore found one of his friends in total disarray this fall after he had dropped acid. "He was having these weird, uncontrollable muscle contractions in his face," he said. "I had to sit near him and calm him down all night, he was so scared. I think someone had slipped him something with the acid...
Rocker & Rock. Walton remains the calm at the center of the storm, living his life as he always has in his rented, five-bedroom communal home with Sports Radicals Jack and Micki Scott, his wife Susan, his l½year-old son Adam, his brother Andy and various drop-in friends. Says Walton: "I don't think I've changed. I still have the same values and interests." Rising by 10 a.m., he typically breakfasts on a quart of juice, a vegetable omelet and rice. On game days, he arrives at the Memorial Coliseum ahead of his teammates...
Trollope approached his work with singular calm and matter-of-factness, and he delighted in comparing himself to a cobbler, an upholsterer or an undertaker. Writing, he said, was just a job like any other, and putting words on paper to make stories was no different from stitching leather to make shoes. His real career, he maintained, was in the post office, where he worked for 33 years, rising from clerk to executive. (It was Trollope who introduced the street-corner mailbox.) Indeed, his failure finally to become the second in command, the highest post he could hope to achieve...