Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without pity or jingo or other illusions. It would mitigate an injustice and might even improve the nation's collective mental health. It would help to settle America's tedious quarrel with itself. Americans should be able to repeat Robert Lowell's line in a calm inward murmur: "My eyes have seen what my hand...
Tucked picturesquely into the western slopes of the Alps, the lakeside resort of Talloires, France, features three-star gastronomy and a timeless mountain calm. But the distinguished assembly that gathered there last week had no interest in sightseeing, and lost little time in shattering the Alpine quiet by speaking up loudly in defense of world press freedom...
...attrition hardly boded well for the scarred, sad urban ghettos of Belfast, Londonderry and other Northern centers. As the clanging of garbage can lids announced the news of Sands' death, gangs of Catholic youths once again rampaged through the streets, despite calls from the I.R.A. itself for calm as the organization prepared its martyr's farewell. Cars and other vehicles were overturned and burned as impromptu barricades. As they had in previous weeks, plumes of smoke from Molotov cocktails hung over Belfast. One youngster blew himself up as he tried to plant a crudely made bomb in that...
...sapphic connection in court, she could organize a parade of witnesses who would keep the tabloids happy for weeks. So King decided that she herself must manage the stagecraft of her public humiliation. Her parents on one side, her husband Larry on the other wearing an expression of indecipherable calm, she faced a press conference and admitted the lesbian affair; was, she said, a "mistake." The homosexual rights movement may have curled its lip just then. And feminists, if they thought about it, might worry about the almost cynically unliberated way that Larry later took the rap for his wife...
...here is not whether I agree or disagree with the statement, but rather how I and the organization I represent [Communist Workers Party] are portrayed in the media. The tone and style of my remarks in the debate were in stark contrast to my opponents. I tried to be calm and rational, to beat back the anti-communism of the teacher of the course and deal with the issues that were on the minds of the students. Maybe the writer was surprised that a Marxist-Leninist could do that. I tried to destroy the stereotypes about communists. From what...