Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such relative calm? For one thing, Oceana's rough reputation has always been a bit overblown. The bars are gone now, and the town's businesses consist mainly of a coal company store, a bank, two coin laundries, an AMC-Jeep dealership, Wanda's Beauty Shop, Roberts Motel and a Montgomery Ward catalogue office. "We have no bars, no parking meters and no coloreds," says Frank Laxton Jr., a used-car dealer and Oceana's mayor...
...nearby ditch screamed for help. I helped them limp to waiting ambulances. A young couple emerged from the ditch screaming, 'We had two children in the bus.' The woman was hysterical. 'Where are my children, my children?' she cried. The husband was steely calm. 'If my children are dead,' he said with eerie softness, 'I'll kill all the Arabs in the world...
...well as anybody. Next to skiing, though, the most important thing in patrol work is how well you can relate to a person, especially a person in distress. All those people were very extroverted, and able to really communicate with accident victims, and help them through hard times--calm their fears...
...appeared best in Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, the last work of the concert. The Eighth Symphony is in many respects the equal of Dvorak's more celebrated New World Symphony, which he wrote later. It suggests the many faces of Czech culture as Dvorak saw them--pastoral joy, Bohemian calm, and general happiness--all of which are captured in the work. The orchestra handled the transitions between these moods well, and the piece had more coherence and unity than the Debussy or Saint-Saens. In the first movement, the powerful horns and cellos, the cheerful forte, and the recapitulation...
...suit. She regards the camera gravely, with a look of total self-absorption. Her body and face are womanly, but her expression is that of a three-year-old girl playing intently at the beach. She sees the photographer, but from a place far inside herself. She seems profoundly calm. A viewer wonders: What does she find there? What is so fascinating...