Word: calmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proclaimed "a stranger on the face of the earth"-the stranger being the American consciousness. America both fascinated and infuriated Lawrence, and his famed Studies in Classic American Literature was shrill, derisive, but continuingly provocative. The Symbolic Meaning, a collection of earlier versions of the same essays, is considerably calmer in tone, but both versions bear the unmistakable stamp of Lawrence's chaotic, irascible mind. He saw the underlying theme of U.S. literature as the "disintegration of the primal self." "On the top it is nice as pie, goody-goody and lovey-dovey. Like Hawthorne being such a blue...
Expansion or Stability? The controversy comes at a pivotal time. Calmer critics than Patman accuse the Federal Reserve of starting, or at least contributing to, the recessions of 1958 and 1960 by hiking interest rates and reducing the credit supply in its zeal to head off inflation. Now that some prices are rising anew, the central bankers again must ponder the question of whether to battle inflation at the risk of nipping the economy's three-year-old expansion. In recent months Chairman
...events contributed to the calmer view. One was the silent, heroic posture of Jacqueline Kennedy. Even more significant was the orderly transition with which one democratic leader gave way to another in a moment of great stress. Acknowledged with profound respect, it created a sense of reassurance and clarity about the U.S.'s role in the free world. In Bonn, a political scientist said: "The mechanism of a great democracy turned on, smoothly, calmly, if somberly, adjusting to tragedy, overcoming it. The Cabinet and legislature continued to function. It was, as it had to be, business as usual...
Senior year was calmer. The CRIMSON editorialized against serving rum punch to freshmen and began a short-lived "Uncle Smugley Says" column. Wolff's Tutoring School rolled busily on and actress Joan Bennet, on a visit to Boston, recommended movie careers to a charmed circle of Harvardmen...
Just one year ago, after a bitterly emotional campaign, 1,730,000 Peruvians went to the polls to choose among the three top presidential candidates-and produced a deadlock so explosive that a military junta annulled the whole thing. This week, in a somewhat calmer atmosphere, the voters will try again with the same faces, the same ideologies, and the same soldiers looking over their shoulders...