Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Athens like an avenging archangel swooped Archbishop Makarios, the President of Cyprus. No sooner had he preened the patriarchal pinfeathers and snapped his beatific smile into place than he disappeared for talks at Greek Premier George Papandreou's pine-shrouded villa near the capital. Papandreou hoped to calm down Makarios and avoid increased conflict with Tur key. After a four-hour meeting, the two leaders announced agreement on a "basic line of common policy" that included acquiescence to the U.N. peacekeeping force on Cyprus. But it also promoted "self-determination" for the beleaguered island, suggesting a new drive...
...Three. On the relatively calm 161-mile stretch from Cat Cay to Sylvia Light, Max Aitken's Vivacity clung to a narrow lead, pursued by two Formula 233s. Bertram's Lucky Moppie was now running fourth, and Abbott's Rum Runner was fifth. Then one of the Formulas ran out of gas. Cracking along at 3,500 r.p.m. and 50 knots, Bertram overtook the other-and shot into first place when Aitken veered off course. With just three miles to go on the final leg from Hog Cay to Nassau, Bertram seemed to have it sewed...
Plainly the government hoped that Sheik Abdullah would forswear his leo nine ways and calm his followers rather than hone their hopes of Kashmiri independence. As for the sheik, he allowed that his first task will be to "meet my people, know their views and understand them." He added: "Of course...
...this third novel the author's calm view is womanly enough, but it is of a world in which men do command the center of the stage. The world is Southern: planting, shooting, politics. The narrator is Abigail Mason, a divorced heiress, who tells of her grandfather and her husband, two hard men who did not like each other. The grandfather, William Rowland, lives as he pleases on vast timberlands owned by his ancestors since the War of 1812. He pleases, as it turns out, to take a Negro mistress after his wife's death and fathers several...
...official religion, the faithful needed a new enemy to remain in tension with this world, and they discovered it in themselves. The martyr-saint who had been thrown to the lions was replaced by the ascetic-saint who was beset by private visions of demons. In the "barrenness and calm abstraction of the desert," man could come to grips with his true nature, writes Lacarrière. Life's superfluities dropped away; the moral choices were starkly clear. Ascetics went for years without seeing or talking to another person. They hacked out inaccessible niches in cliffs or burrowed...