Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minds of some scholars, he was a mediocre President, indifferent to the civil rights movement, spineless in the face of McCarthyism, slow of wit and out of touch with the currents of upheaval swirling beneath the calm surface of the 1950s. To more and more students of the era, however, Dwight David Eisenhower was a canny leader who brilliantly outmaneuvered subordinates and statesmen. Author and Biographer Stephen E. Ambrose can claim a seat in each camp...
...often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or a dog than to any human being." Sometimes the love of animals bespeaks an incapacity for the more complicated business of loving people; mental patients who react to other humans with fear and loathing can develop calm, tender relationships with puppies. Animals are usually perfectly themselves, not the elaborately perverse psychological mysteries that people seem to become. Animals, if not rabid, have a certain emotional reliability. But being on the side of the animals does not always make one a good guy. It is wise, when beginning...
...Central America, only a few hours away at full speed. I was learning facts about the Navy that I could take back with me to Harvard. The men did their jobs, some well, some poorly, some enthusiastically, some reluctantly; I watched and sometimes worked with them. The sea was calm, the food was variable. Nicaragua and Lebanon weren't big topics of conversation. But they were in the backs of most minds...
...reference to your editorial in the September 20 issue of The Crimson ("Staying Calm"), it is incredibly foolish to suppose that the way to stay calm is by not facing the facts. As the dissenting opinion on the same page pointed out, blaming the murder of 269 innocent individuals on such an amorphous "criminal" as the Cold War is ludicrous. No matter how you look at it as calmly as coolly as you please. Flight 007 was shot down by a Russian jet fighter. It's that plain and simple. Any other "explanation" fails to face the facts...
Obviously staying calm is an utter necessity--but that doesn't mean blinding ourselves to the facts. To suppose that strict sanctions against the Soviet Union (not a militaristic response at all) would assure that the world would be a less safe place to be is asinine. Just as the schoolyard bully will do as no one puts his foot down and stands up to him, so will the Soviet Union do as it please until we do something...