Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon, and the young chief executive opened the first envelope. The message inside: "Balance your budget. " When new problems developed, the president twice more consulted his silent mentors. "Form a committee," read the second note; "Make a new five-year plan, "said the third. After a period of relative calm, another crisis ensued, and the president, after opening the fourth envelope, slumped in his chair. The suggestion: "Prepare four envelopes...
...nouveau. There is plenty of costly jewelry made today; but what modern design by Bulgari or Tiffany does not look gross or commonplace beside a piece like Lalique's swan pendant of 1898? In those cool, exquisite loops and featherings of enamel one sees a vanished sensibility: distanced, calm, perfectly judged, and soon to be destroyed by the tensions of a new century...
...that in or out of sports, American women would set a better example for men. They still could. Significantly, perhaps, it appears that among the new wave of women players, those who have full-time jobs and, like men, play the game at night and on weekends seem most calm and mannerly. For the Women's Movement and mixed doubles alike, that phenomenon may have many happy returns...
...purposes of his instruction, the denigrating voice is designated as Self 1 (read ego), the natural body as Self 2 (read id). Unless you can shut Self 1 up or calm him down, Gallwey contends, Self 2 will be too nervous to play. To help Self 2 devote itself to tennis, Gallwey wisely offers practical exercises on how to relax and watch the ball. Among them: actually trying to see the ball's seams as it approaches; following its trajectory back and forth while imagining it is creating a huge linear, free-form painting in the air. Says...
...country remained calm last week, but, as one West German businessman in Warsaw observed, "You have the feeling the place could explode any minute." To avert new violence, Gierek has promised to conduct "a frank, open dialogue" with the public about his food policy. Just in case that should fail, he has also canceled military leaves so that Polish forces can maintain a state of semi-alert...