Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studio. In his genius for rendering evanescence within a monumental structure, Monet became a master of le temps retrouvé: the most Proustian of painters. His truer literary equivalent, though, was the symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé. The blank page, for Mallarmé, trembled with possibility, as calm water or the tight-stretched canvas did for Monet. Its white flatness was not an absence: it was a poetic element, possessing the character of thought. "The intellectual armature of the poem," Mallarmé once wrote, "conceals itself, is present-is active-in the space that surrounds the stanzas...
...name mentioned she'd jot it down ... Or sometimes if Mr. Johnson wanted her, he'd say, 'Bird, do you know so-and-so's number?' and she'd always have it down. Yet she would sit talking with us, looking so calm...
...right in the middle of this mass devastation, the winners enjoyed the microphones and the cameras. Barron was all smiles, Rodgers was a calm and collected victor, Wells was subdued, and DeMoss carried her second-place trophy saying, "I feel fine--really good...
...Crimson maintained a one-seat edge as it settled to 37 strokes a minute from its opening pace of 40. The Orangemen were rowing hard but lost further ground at the calm channel entrance when Harvard cox Jeff Rothstein called a power ten--an all-out sprint for ten strokes...
...tempers had cooled, and officials for both the union and the University remained calm. They acknowledged that differences still existed, but said the two sides had to "resolve all the issues at the bargaining table." Reassignment still existed, and the workers were still unhappy with the policy; but everyone had decided it was time to sit down and talk...