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Word: calm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus can he bear the pain of living day to day, can he get by. His women absorb his life, and Tarkovsky shows us why. Hari is haunting and vulnerable as she pleads for his love. And when Kelvin pictures him mother in his mind's eye, her tall, calm figure stares at us from the screen with the look of a bewitching Modigliani...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Star Trek, Russian Style | 8/17/1976 | See Source »

...conclusion after pondering "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual." Defining the limits has always been at the heart of our political argument, though the debate is often overshadowed by more immediate issues. But because the world is calm and no great national crisis has so far intruded into or focused the campaign, there has been time to grow a bit more philosophical than usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: In Praise of the Brown Bag | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...grim contrast to the calm in Lebanon's emerging Christian country-within-a-country, the fighting continued to rage elsewhere in a war that combines tragedy with its own brand of occasional bitter comedy. Some items from the notebooks of TIME Correspondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Battle Notes: Land of the $25 Kill | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...calm good sense and dry wit have made Kirbo something of a legend among the Carter staff members; they offer him deference mixed with affection. Says Carter's media director, Gerald Rafshoon: "Charlie never plays any roles, any games. He never tries to impress anybody. All the rest of us need something from Jimmy. Kirbo doesn't want anything. He's the only guy I know who could walk away from all that power. If Jimmy ever got bigheaded, the first guy to straighten him out would be Kirbo." Then Rafshoon adds wishfully: "Boy, would I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Charlie Behind Jimmy | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...amiss. As the group's executive director for the past eleven years, Wilkins, 74, has become the embodiment of the organization that he had labored so energetically to help build. But once the normally soft-spoken Wilkins started talking, he shook the 3,000 delegates out of their calm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: A Leader's Dissonant Swan Song | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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