Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inside, Slocum is a boiling cauldron of some moon-pulled witch's brew. He knows only dimly of that "something" which makes him fearful, disgusting, and self-loathing. Superficially, he maintains a calm indifference and manipulative diplomacy. He is so much like a chameleon that he acquires the characteristics of persons he's dealing with, including a stutter. For Heller, he is the conglomerate image of corporate man in America, at once the symbol of upward and downward mobility. "I ascend," he says, "like a Condor, while falling to pieces...
...younger, more fragile blonde who last week sat silently in the Heritage Room of Boston's Parker House and watched her husband bow out of the 1976 presidential contest. Joan Kennedy, demonstrating the rigid control expected of political wives in America -especially Kennedy wives-stayed calm and clear-eyed, her gaze focused on a point near her husband, her hands folded demurely in her lap. She remained all but immobile when her husband said that he would not subject his family to the rigors of a presidential campaign. Then her control began to give way at the edges...
...bizarre court, where obeisance is paid to a sad stick-figure of a man, Barnes finds a paradigm of all relationships based on power and authority. Carlos himself valiantly manages to hold on to the shreds of his sanity, expecially in the speeches he delivers in the interludes of calm clarity that follow his fits; the mental cripples around him are far more warped by power...
...floor of some palatial Harvard building, and that before me, gracefully snaking its way down to the first floor, was the finest wood bannister this side of the Andes. All the staircases at Harvard would have shivered their timbers at the sight of this bannisterial specimen, but I was calm as I edged my duff onto its perimeter, then slid down. Upon my descent, the Dean appeared from the shadows and growled, you don't belong at this college young man, and I fled out the door with a shudder...
While all was calm in Montgomery, Boston was still reeling from angry demonstrations against the busing of black children to schools in white neighborhoods. In the city that had done so much to advance the cause of civil rights, a group of Ku Klux Klan members arrived last week to stir up more trouble, as did a contingent of neo-Nazi white supremacists from Virginia...