Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Calm Down Mother and Comings and Goings by Megan Terry, and dramatic readings from the poetry of the late Anne Sexton, presents some of the work of two talented, intriguing contemporary woman writers. Not all the writing is feminist. Most of it's quite good. At the Ex tonight, tomorrow and Saturday...
Coming at the same time the Harvard Corporation picks next spring's recipients of honorary degrees, Ali's victory might inspire even this group that prides itself on its calm. If cooler heads prevail there, Ali might make an outstanding Norton Professor of Poetry...
...hero, Hassan, is a stylized creation--one never learns where he acquires his values, or why he follows his brother's will so cravenly in the beginning. And through a large portion of the film's middle he's away in jail. His calm dispassionate heroism doesn't help elucidate the tensions within him between tradition and new values...
Sipping a soft drink as he leaned back in his chair, a shirtsleeved Nelson Rockefeller seemed calm enough last week. But his mood, as he talked to TIME New York Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, was pugnacious, his tone emphatic. When Clark asked, "Are you unhappy?" Rockefeller retorted: "I'm not unhappy. I'm only trying to keep you from being unhappy." Highlights of the interview in Manhattan...
...fifth week under a court integration order requiring the busing of white and black pupils into each other's neighborhoods, Boston was a mixture of calm and tension. A motorcade of white parents opposed to forced busing created noise but little more. A parade of blacks protesting the school boycott by whites went off quietly. Attendance at some schools was near normal, while elsewhere students stayed home; citywide school attendance last week averaged 72%, up 8% from opening week but down slightly from its high point...