Word: calmes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum is a calm and elegant presence on 53rd Street. Fox and Fowle, the New York City architectural firm, has created an airy space within Architect Kevin Roche's Hutton tower. Although the museum's facade is faced with the same pinkish granite as the tower, it is free of Roche's flamboyant touches -- mansard roof and lobby fit for the enthronement of pharaohs...
Gradually Rutger began to calm down. He took out his airline ticket and reread it approvingly. "Well, my friend, in just 10 hours we'll be in Managua. Mighty fine airline, Capitalist Insurgency Airways...
...some students from the University of Edinburgh at a museum in Xi'an. "If you stay here much longer, you will go back with slitty eyes," quipped the royal consort, who went on to call Peking "ghastly" before his wife, in the words of a student, "tried to calm him down." Later, after the incident made the front pages back home, Philip had a final word for the students: "Rather tactless...
Being among the sportswriters was also an enthralling experience. During the games they were fairly lighthearted, laughing at players' errors and throwing their wide range of opinions back and forth. An atmosphere of calm and lightheartedness pervaded the press...
Then, too, there are similar passions in poetry and politics. However dignified poetry or politics may appear, there is something sublimely irrational at their centers. Both appeal to the irrational as well, to the zealot in you stirring in the ice of your calm and stately nature. Zealots themselves, they seem to need to win something, to force a climax almost sexual...