Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orchestra Leopold Stokowski had built, it was astonishing, then as now, to note how readily the musicians yielded their lush sound and fat phrasing to the brilliant, transparent, sharply contoured style that Toscanini favored. The resulting interpretations are still splendid to hear-spacious, virtuosic, imbued with an exceptional inner calm...
...murder, death so that we no longer actively feel the pains of the victim or suffer for the mourners or feel their grief. When the Hindenburg blew up, the reporter broke down on the radio. I can't imagine anything like that happening today. I imagine a detached, calm description of the ship going up in flames: "I do believe there will be no survivors." We have become desensitized to things that are usually part of the human condition. This is the basic problem of television. We've lost our sense of shock, our sense of humanity...
...maintain calm in the Soviet Union's backyard, while it deals with Washington and Peking, Moscow has been trying to mend a few fences in Eastern Europe. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev flew to Belgrade-his first journey to Yugoslavia in five years. The effusive Brezhnev greeted Yugoslav President Josi f Broz Tito with three kisses and an exuberant bear hug. This was one more Slavic smooch than usual -perhaps an index of how anxious Moscow is to improve relations with the independent Yugoslavs. At an official dinner at the Federal Executive Council Building, Brezhnev ridiculed...
Like firemen dashing to douse a blaze, dozens of Italian Communist Party leaders have been fanning throughout Italy to calm rising discontent among the party's rank and file. For a long time, it seemed nothing could go wrong for the tightly disciplined, well-organized P.C.I., as it racked up increasingly impressive results in one election after another. But so many Communists in recent weeks have openly displayed skepticism or outright disapproval of their party's policies that the P.C.I, leadership faces its most serious internal problem in years...
...these three. David Levy as Hysterium, the slave-in-chief on whom Pseudolus has leverage because of his collection of pornographic pottery, is suitably hysterical, in all senses of the word. He runs about like a Skinner-box mouse on Thorazine. Taking time out to sing "I'm Calm," he shows he's as cool under fire as barbecue sauce in a heat wave. Andy Borowitz is on target too, in his characterization of Lycus, a gentleman and procurer. He adds just the right dash of street hip, and being skinny with black moustache, owes more than just...