Word: calmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land was filled from the Public Garden westward, Bostonians erected the French Academism of Haussman's Paris, with mansard roofs and pedimented windows. Further west they built gabled Queen Anne houses in brick, and then the calmer white Neoclassicist homes. Finally, they returned to the Federalist style of an earlier America...
...Riots, crime and permissiveness are all linked in their minds, in a sense, with the old, New Deal-style leadership. Those Americans who have struggled to get just a bit of the good life are turning away to seek a calmer mooring. Right now they have fastened upon Richard Nixon, who goes to ball games, supports the lean hot dog and follows space flights with the enthusiasm of a small boy. He is the president of the Jaycees, the Kiwanis booster, the cheerleader flying around the world glorying in what middle America has wrought. The Apollo success makes...
...most disturbing developments of the last few weeks has been President Pusey's appointment of a special committee to investigate "possible misconduct" by Faculty members during the April crisis. In a calmer emotional climate than the one Harvard now faces, it might be possible for the Faculty to consider objectively some standards of acceptable and unacceptable conduct. But the particular context in which this new committee has started to work makes its purpose seems repugnant...
...that faculty members spend three to four times as much time on administrative work as they would desire ideally.y It is little wonder, then, that faculty members who grow tired of student unrest simply pick up and leave the university where they have been working, trying to find a calmer place. This has happened most dramatically at Berkeley, at Columbia, and recently at Cornell. There are other reasons too, of course, especially in the case of Berkeley. But, generally, faculty members whose work depends on large federal contracts and grants have lost much of their institutional commitment. They lost their...
...water is calmer, both crews will have a better opportunity to show their true form...