Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normal human being might have checked into a local hotel rather than undergo all of this. But a candidate is not a normal human being. Even so calm and modest a candidate as Mo Udall is, after all, still a creature possessed by the vision of the White House just over the next state line...
American history shows a kind of ebb and flow in national purpose and social activism. The progressive era was followed by the quiescent, conservative Harding, Coolidge and Hoover regimes. Then came the great frenzy of the New Deal and the war, which were succeeded by the calm Eisenhower years. Kennedy, in his phrase, got "America moving again"-right into the hyperactive Johnson era. During the Nixon years there came another pause, domestically at least (until Watergate spoiled the calm). That pause has continued under Gerald Ford...
...Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light. The painting is drenched in idealized wistfulness, even to the title, taken from Baudelaire's L 'Invitation au voyage: "There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, calm and sensuous pleasure." No effort can restore its lost shock value, and this, in a different way, is true of the Derain as well. Today we luxuriate in its weighty design and audacious color, the blaring vermilion tree trunks, the complex blues in the caves of shadow, the pyrotechnics...
...photographers waiting at the Anacostia River dock when he drove up and when he sailed back in. "Get the goddam press out of here," he would say. He wondered out loud to David Eisenhower whether the Navy could not give him another berth for his boat. David sought to calm him. He told him the way to avoid the press was to stay a long time on the river, and Nixon followed the advice...
Haldipur is a calm and intense long-back-haired son of an academic civil servant, Columbia educated. He is the most politically committed foreign student I spoke to. His father was a "self-made man," Haldipur says, a member of a country family which settled, as poor people, in the city, a man who went to school so long that it created rifts with Haldipur's grandfather. Haldipur himself went to England on a two-year scholarship after a private school education in India--to Atlantic College in South Wales where there were students from "30 or 35 countries." Having...