Word: calmes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is for me in science a marvelous beauty, a great exultation, an inexpressible enthusiasm that makes these experiences seem priceless, and I have a great yearning that each of my friends in the audience shall also experience the thrilled yet calm certainty that this beauty makes me feel. I want to fill them with a sense of power, a sense of victory, and a sense of potentiality...
...Holiday Season Special Effects Oscar goes to the Adams House Teas. Normally pretty sedate affairs, held every other Friday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Masters Robert and Jana Kiely's house in the courtyard of Randolph Hall, the tea rouses itself from cultured calm whenever it tally on a holiday. The St. Patrick's day tea, which has included cases of Guinness and poetry readings by resident Bard Seamus Heaney, gets the biggest kudos. On ordinary Fridays, however, the Adams teas are the first choice for people after cucumber sandwiches and quiet conversation...
...Prime Minister's vague program may not be enough to calm the protectionist furor in Congress, where both the House and Senate have overwhelmingly passed resolutions calling on the President to retaliate against Japan unless it reduces import restrictions. Said Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri: "The problem is not going to be solved by a single Nakasone speech or package of promises. The only thing that counts is results." Agreed Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat: "We essentially have here an unsecured promissory note, and if our negotiations with Japan continue as they have in the past...
...reported in the book, saying that coaching usually produces increases of only 14 to 26 points. Many of the "tricks" that Katzman's Review claims to impart, says Anrig, are explained in a free E.T.S. booklet distributed in advance of the SAT. College administrators view the quarrel with general calm, noting that the SATs, however feared or valid, are just one element in admissions decisions. A few educators have suggested replacing the SATs with exams like the E.T.S. Achievement Tests, which measure knowledge rather than aptitude. Owen insists that the Review system could crack their codes too. "Any multiple- choice...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, upon meeting Mary Ann Evans in 1848, said she possessed "a calm, serious soul." Twenty years later a young American visitor to London encountered Mary Ann, now famous as George Eliot. "Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father. "A mingled sagacity and sweetness--a broad hint of a great underlying world of reserve, knowledge, pride and power." Two years before her death in 1880, Ivan Turgenev raised his glass at a party in an English country house and proposed a toast to Eliot: "The greatest living...