Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faithful for a crowd of press photographers; of his First Lady, in a red dress, showing off one of the presents she received before church on Christmas morning, a gold-star medallion inscribed on one side "To Mamie" and on the other "For never-failing help since 1916-in calm and in stress, in dark days and in bright-Love...
Looking back at his hectic travels from the dead calm of a comfortable hospital bed and a milk-and-cream diet, Batlle Berres had a philosophical thought on U.S. hospitality: "Everywhere I went," he smiled, "people gave me Scotch and water. I had to go to the hospital to find out how good this country's milk...
...never made a crucifix when the tears did not course down his cheeks . . ." Some later historians have doubted this picture of Fra Angelico in a state of religious ecstasy. The evidence in his painting points far more to a man who was the soul of patience and mildness, but calm, even cool, in temperament. Probably English Art Historian John Pope-Hennessy comes closest to the mark: "For all the translucent surface of his paintings, for all his rapturous pleasure in the natural world, there lay concealed, within Angelico's artistic personality, a Puritan faithful to his own intransigent ideal...
...lightly issued." He claims that his intent was to secure peaceful settlement of this tense problem. His statements in last Thursday's press conference, however, indicate that he was really more interested in accusing the Russians of stirring up "hatred and prejudice" than in actually creating "a spirit of calm." The emphasis in all his statements is on censuring the Russians for attempting to play upon Indian national pride. It would seem that if Dulles actually intended to create an atmosphere of peace, he would have left the Russians out of the case entirely...
Samurai (Homel; Fine Arts Films] rivets the eye with its swift alternations of animal ferocity and morning calm. Like the prizewinning Gate of Hell (TIME, Dec. 13), this new Japanese film begins with a disordered 17th century battle piece: a flood of lance-waving horsemen surge across a meadow; agile warriors skip and pirouette in a whirling of two-handed blades; the defeated topple, with blood bursting between their clenched teeth. The struggle ends in far-off shouting as mists steal down from the mountains to draw a pale blanket over the slain...