Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty relaxed, so calm in fact that a white man can almost forget that all of the faces are black, save for a man who left a moment ago after telling a black man with whom he had been chatting to "stay out of trouble" in a friendly way. Just after he left, Deloros, the manager of the Sunset, came in and talked about the place. "It's like a club in a way," she said. "I have lots of parties here for the regular people ... we have pictures of the parties." She said that the police had few complaints...
...perceive that a "quiet counterrevolution" had, in fact, been going on in Czechoslovakia. One must not wait, wrote Pravda, "for the shooting of Communists and the appearance of gallows before going to the aid of the adherents of socialism." Such tortuously dogmatic reasoning was apt to exacerbate rather than calm the anger of Communists abroad. As Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban observed: "The Soviet Union has lost one of the great dimensions of its foreign policy, namely the remarkable capacity that it had to appeal to the minds and consciences of millions of people outside its borders...
...understood, student protest can be a positive and progressive force," says Young. "One of the real problems we're confronted with is a feeling by a large number of students that something is wrong with U.C.L.A. since we haven't had any riots." One reason for the calm is the tripartite University Policies Commission that Young drew up last winter. Composed of students, teachers and administrators, the commission advises on the university's major policy decisions before they are enacted. Young comments that many student committees "actually tend to be a little conservative, especially where fiscal policy...
Building on Blue Chips. His mode of departure reflected his belief in calm continuity. Well aware that ad agencies often slow down when their bosses grow old and linger too long, Strouse began planning his own retirement three years ago. He tapped Dan Seymour, a one time soap-opera actor who revitalized J. Walter's television department, to become president. Now Seymour takes full charge of a shop that, thanks to Strouse, is not about to lose its No. 1 ranking. Billings have more than doubled since Strouse was named president in 1955, and currently exceed $600 million. With...
...Stern's establishment, the clients come for one day only. With the aid of a scrupulously neutral staff, they are measured and examined. Between bouts of play and sleep, they study their own lives and the world, life wish and death wish together. Then comes calm choice -a return to the world or death, an end reached through a wide range of means provided by the management. Suicides, Stern observes, are the graduate students of the academy...