Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much has been made of Secretary of State George Shultz's congenial, soft-spoken manner. Yet in five months on the job, he has done more than merely bring collegial calm to Foggy Bottom. On at least two occasions the methodical, low-key Secretary has persuaded President Reagan to modify deeply held policies...
Verdi: The apparition of Hecate works well, because it interrupts all those diabolical dances and makes room for a calm and severe adagio. I needn't tell you that Hecate should never dance, but only strike poses...
...auto company going down the drain and subconsciously courted disaster. For many highly successful people the only alternative to spectacular success is dramatic failure. De Lorean was too shrewd not to be aware of the dangers a novice faces in the drug trade. Your story noted that he appeared calm and unsurprised when he was arrested. Perhaps De Lorean was also relieved...
Certainly not audiences across America, which have loudly acclaimed him on a solo recital tour that ended last week in Manhattan with a masterly program of Schubert songs set to Goethe texts. Prey has lost nothing of his fabled way with the German art song, whether communicating the unearthly calm of Meeres Stille, the wild terror of the Erlkönig, the heroic defiance of Prometheus or the soft tenderness of Versunken. And certainly not the opera audiences of San Francisco, which last month heard him sing his greatest role, Mozart's Figaro, in a musically radiant (though poorly...
...House of Trade Unions. Then the streets outside were packed with an unruly mob of people pushing their way toward the hall. "Stalin was like a god to them," he explained. "They were swarming around trying to see the dead god. But Brezhnev was human, and people are calm...