Word: calming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly, a strange sort of cultural calm has settled over the nation's colleges, at least on the surface. No campus is without its atrocity story of intellectual deadness. At the University of Michigan, Vice President for Student Affairs James Lewis asked a group of 100 students what they thought of Aldous Huxley. "Only one or two of them," he reported, "had ever heard of him." At Kenyon, Poet-Critic John Crowe Ransom sadly detects "a sort of idleness of the creative imagination." At the University of Illinois, English Professor Charles Shattuck complains : "A secondhand bookstore wouldn...
...brighter, more conscientious, more in earnest than his predecessors. If he refuses to play the rebel, it is probably because he feels he must cover too much ground to prepare himself for the future. Perhaps the most significant.paradox in collegiate life is that today's intellectual calm is largely the result of the rising level and increasing intensity of the average campus' intellectual demands...
This posthumous novel draws an elegiac picture of an American scene that vanished scarcely a generation ago but already seems as remote as Eden. The story opens in Knoxville. Tenn. as the city dreams through a summer evening filled with the cry of locusts, an evening as calm as the shirtsleeved men watering their lawns in the gentle half-light. A streetcar makes its metallic groan on a curve and disappears trailing sparks like blue fireflies; chanting children play in the circling glow of a lamppost. And when it grows dark, there are more quiet stars in the sky than...
Whipple also tried to calm the nerves of jittery moonwatchers who, he warned, would probably be unable to see any rocket hit the moon, even if such a missile had been sent up. Without accurate information on the trajectory, he said, even the biggest telescopes would be unable to track a moon-rocket...
...less calm American reaction came from the SPCA, which deplored the experiment, and requested that its sentiments be conveyed to Moscow...