Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Core bulled its way into April, carrying the rest of us along with it, but it was hardly the only distraction. Nothing so structured, so rational, could dominate for long; the world needs too much room in which to go mad. This little island in Cambridge, rising with calm through the storm, still could not but hear the raging of the elements outside: Lebanon, Palestine and Italy, where Aldo Moro's bodyguards lay dead, and where Moro himself would, after a series of pathetic letters, pay the Red Brigades' price. No comfort there; the outside looked ugly...
...clear that they were, though. The week passed in a frenzy, all chants and demands and marches and late-night deadlines. Vignettes: Derek Bok's frozen smile as he crossed the Yard, bureaucratic calm amidst a self-righteous storm; Dan Steiner chatting with protestors on the steps of University Hall, a few left-over torches burning down after the year's most spectacular protest march; the bemused set to the jaws of the University policement covering the demos, unsure of how to handle these kids who, they were told but did not quite believe, might try to grab a building...
...shifts. Secretariat personnel spot flaming toilet paper flying from the hotel later that Saturday night. They are busily partying in suite #113, but will take time out to investigate. Security director Hatch confronts the sheepish perpetrators and they deny it. It doesn't really matter -- it is a relatively calm night. No more bottles and metal objects...
...lobbied for Planned Parenthood while in a visibly advanced stage of pregnancy. The mother of two children, Foreman is married to a vice president of the retail clerks union. She looks more like an editor of a fashion magazine than a tough Government regulator, and she strikes visitors as calm and relaxed. Soft, gentle music plays in her office because, she says, "it calms the wild beasts who are in here all the time...
Cohen said Harvard "has taken a 180 degree turn" since he was an undergrad. "During the late '60s and early '70s Harvard was a tumultuous, politically alive place. Now it is very calm in comparison." Cohen added, "this is still the most articulate and intelligent student body that I have seen anywhere. That will probably never change...