Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking time out from his business with the Writers' International Congress, Author William (A Fable) Faulkner decided to sightsee among the well-known Brazilian tourist spots, ended up in the São Paulo snake farm with a full-grown snake coiled around his neck. Calm in the knowledge that, as he has written, "man and his folly . . . will prevail," the Mississippi philosopher declared: "I'm not afraid of snakes. Man is man's most dangerous enemy." Then back to its keeper he handed the snake, which-on close inspection-turned out to be a thoroughly harmless...
...whisky-drinking factory girl of 16. She carried a small hatchet in her handbag because, she said, "some guys get fresh." After a few drinks one evening, she used the hatchet on a 71-year-old tailor, picked his wallet and went home. "I felt easy and happy and calm." she said later. "Then I remembered I had left my hatchet in the shop. I dressed and went back . . . He was still gurgling. I hit him on the head some more until he was quiet...
...slender, hard-faced man, outwardly calm and obviously used to authority, stood last week in the governor's office in Bacolod, capital of Negros Occidental Province, and heard himself sentenced to death. At this, an insignificant-looking woman, the mother of his victim smiled wanly and said: "Now I know that justice is for the rich and poor alike...
...Retorted the New Statesman & Nation, "They are too subtle for the superficial glance. His achievement . . . is his remarkable patience . . . that allows him time to discover his subject's undramatic drama." Art News & Review noted that a "vein of somewhat folky humor persists [but] the greatest quality [is] deep calm, giving a sense of a pastoral order in mankind...
...Saturday). There are rarely family names, if at all. The Burmese also believe that a child's personality is often determined by his birthday, or by his demeanor at birth. "A man born on Monday will be jealous; on Tuesday, honest; on Wednesday, short-tempered but soon calm; on Thursday, mild; on Friday, talkative; on Saturday, hot-tempered and quarrelsome; on Sunday, parsimonious." *U Xu and 90% of the Burmese are Theravada Buddhists, accepting Buddhism as a way of life, not as a theocratic doctrine: they have no church, no God in the Western sense. U Nu is tolerant...