Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside, John Connally was quiet and calm in his pain as surgeons prepared to operate. His aide, Bill Stinson, blurted, "How did it happen?" Said Connally: "I don't know...
Leaders who manage to quiet the turbulent French political scene usually stay around to enjoy the calm. The two Napoleons lasted quite a while, as did Louis XIV. Charles DeGaulle, the present president of the French, shows no signs of folding early. Elected to a seven-year term in 1958, the General reportedly intends to resign shortly to seek immediate re-election. Should de Gaulle be successful at the polls again, his term would run roughly until 1970--a total tenure of twelve years. In a country whose people can scarcely remember a chief of state who lasted twelve months...
Inevitably, the concentration of family power evoked hostility and even hatred. But talk of revolts and assassination attempts only increased Diem's reliance on his family. After the abortive coup against his regime three years ago, he said with icy calm: "It was nothing-a handful of adventurers." He grew less and less willing to delegate authority. In the war against the Communist Viet Cong, Diem took personal charge of army units as small as a battalion. Often, able field commanders were switched to desk jobs in Saigon where, as potential rivals, they could be carefully watched...
...length saw what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...
...private secretary and kept in touch with him for 25 years, and Santayana unburdened himself to Cory as to few others. Explaining why his philosophy seemed so cool, he once wrote: "Each passion or hope when alive sees hateful enemies in every other passion and hope, whereas calm insight sees in each the good to which it aspires...