Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gendarme phalanxes charged-and nearly a square mile of Paris turned into a battlefield. As retreating students hurled Molotov cocktails and set fire to many autos, the explosion of their gasoline tanks mixed with the pop of police tear-gas grenades. In a belated weekend effort to restore calm, Premier Georges Pompidou proclaimed on radio and television that reform of the university system was "indispensable," and promised to reopen the Sorbonne this week. He even hinted that appeal courts would deal lightly with already convicted student leaders...
Always outspoken and never involved in personal vendettas, he even managed to charm Joseph Stalin during his Moscow service, but at war's end found the aims of Communism and the U.S. "irreconcilable." Calm and courtly, Harriman became a bridge expert at Yale (class of 1913), coached crew and rowed in the same shell with Dean Acheson, later was an eight-goal polo player at Long Island's Meadow Brook club. Even today, dismounted, the slim six-footer is acknowledged by Hobe Sound (Fla.) residents to be a champion croquet strategist...
...needs during our years at Radcliffe." The letter specifically refers to Radcliffe raising money to build a fourth House, and not for scholarships or subsidies to let students live off-off campus. Miss Balter, in charge of soliciting the senior class, has called the letter "very lovely . . . calm and reasonable...
...activity"). Artists who followed in his wake have moved a long way from his early haphazard, boisterous ways. Luminal artists first experimented with the pulsating strobe effects and psychedelic projections that have since moved into discotheques, ballets and boutiques; the newest and most radical works are apt to be calm, cool and minimal. A case in point is Dan Flavin's "Indoor Routines," constructed of 54 pink and gold fluorescent tubes, which turned the main floor of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art into a lurid, luminal glen...
That great wave of massive anti-war feeling that was washing over the country only two months ago has gone back to sea now. And it has left behind calm little peaceful puddles on the beach. People stand over the puddles, look at their reflections in the water and love it. Peace is so wonderful. It makes you forget about...