Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this small town where every thing is known, I see His vanishing emblems, His white spire and flagpole sticking out above the fog, like old white china doorknobs, sad, slight, useless things to calm...
...regarded as a guru among his fellow artists. A more sophisticated public is no longer shocked by the fact that he dribbled and threw paint at his monumental canvases instead of applying it with a brush. For those accustomed to the bright glow of neon, even his colors seem calm. In short, Pollock has become something that many artists dread more than being controversial: he has become an institution...
Most of the states affected greeted the order with relative calm. A few politicians denounced it, notably Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, who called the court's decision "ungodly and un-American...
August as Usual. The first dire predictions that the oil would pollute England's beaches for ten or 15 years were soon proved wrong. By week's end, while huge pools of slick remained offshore in a calm sea-thus remaining vulnerable to continued attack by detergents-the defenders had managed to keep sufficiently ahead of the incoming oil to clear most of the beaches. Prime Minister Wilson insisted that all the beaches and the sea would be clear by summer, urged vacationers not to cancel their plans. To illustrate his faith in his own prediction, he announced...
Harvard students are now exhorting one another with such Maoisms as "What we need is an enthusiastic but calm state of mind and intense but orderly work," in Great Britain, sassy teenagers have taken to Maothing retorts to teachers who rebuke them, and Carnaby Street regulars have begun wearing $22.40 Red Guard uniforms; in Manhattan, Mao sayings are briefly as popular as old Confucius-say. But their days as a cocktail-party drop are numbered. For as London's Sun Columnist Henry Fielding noted: "In their cunning way, the Chinese are now using it instead of their water torture...