Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's 1955 State of the Union speech had sweep and calm and balance; it contained no surprises, no glitter, few bones of contention. In tone and content, the message reflected the condition of the nation-watchfully peaceable, prosperous and united. Never has the consensus of American politics been broader. A group stretching across at least two-thirds of each party is in general agreement on the main points of domestic and foreign policy...
...Painter Josef Albers at Black Mountain College. Her show consists of big, wholly abstract sculptures, made of woven wire and suspended from the ceiling. If Noguchi's ceramics demonstrate a certain grinning bounciness in the Japanese heritage, Asawa's wire constructions show the opposite side: austerity and calm. In their openness, delicacy and symmetry they somewhat resemble blossoms, odorless, colorless, outsize, yet refreshing to contemplate...
...brief, calm hearing, Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, and Leon J. Kamin '49, research assistant in psychology at McGill University, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to charges of contempt of the United States Senate...
...speech last week just before leaving Ottawa to spend the holidays at his Quebec City home. The actual text was to be kept secret until the broadcast, but one of the aides who helped prepare it disclosed what the tone of the message would be. "It will be calm and confident," he said, "with what Hollywood calls an upbeat ending...
...game that did not effect the league standings and had no bearing on the championship, the Lions had worked their old hex on the Browns, winning the game, in a driving snowstorm, by 14 to 10. Brilliant Quarterback Bobby Layne (TIME, Nov. 29), passing as if it were a calm, dry day, completed six passes in the closing minutes to put over the winning touchdown. This "preview," as it turned out, was highly deceptive. On the day of the championship this week, when they came to grips on the same field, the sun was shining, the ground was almost...