Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, Athens was calm last week: no new Prime Minister was cho sen, none was dismissed, and the Greeks, who consider politics a national sport easily as worthy of conversation as football, discussed in shops and streets the possible candidates with detached excitement. The very lack of news was impossible to ignore, for unless some resolution was found to the month-long confrontation between King Constantine and ex-Premier George Papandreou, the field lay open to military coup from the right or armed revolt from the left. Young King Constantine appeared more determined than ever to refuse Papandreou...
...professors criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam and Savio complain about U.S. justice. Also on hand was Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, who clanged a pair of tiny cymbals and mumbled an unintelligible, prayerlike chant. What was he trying to say? "That was a magic formula to soothe and calm the heart of the judge," Ginsberg explained...
Last week the 21-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development dismissed Britain's export performance as "consistently unsatisfactory." Seeking to calm the foreign fear, Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan unfurled what amounts to Labor's third budget in nine months: a series of tough deflationary measures that stop just short of import quotas, which would be Britain's last line of defense against devaluation...
...rumpled, outdoor type who likes to meditate in his cabin in the Maine woods, Lawyer Driscoll, now 62, transplanted company headquarters from a Manhattan rookery to the suburban calm of Morris Plains, N.J. Lacking new products based on research, he concentrated at first on selling the old ones harder and more imaginatively, later turned to a computer to help his salesmen. The computer sees to it that free samples go to doctors who request them, sizes up each doctor's prescription-writing potential on the basis of information that salesmen supply about the size of his practice...
Glinting Images. Hesse's hero is obviously himself: the son of a devout and prosperous burgher who in childhood encounters a strange companion named Max Demian. Demian is a boy, but he has "the face of a man, superior and purposeful, lucid and calm, with knowing eyes. Yet the face had something feminine about it too, and was somehow a thousand years old. He was different, like an animal or a spirit or a picture, unimaginably different from the rest...