Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business of choosing a president will be uninspired and abnormally calm this year. From both major candidates the voters have heard too much carping and too much rhapsodic optimism. Many will show their dissatisfaction by turning to a third or fourth party, believing that the next four years are expendable, and hoping for something better in 1952. They fail to recognize, however, with what deadly speed history lopes from war to peace, from boom to bust. Rejecting the path of protest, The Crimson believes it must choose one of the two candidates whose election is possible. The Crimson supports...
...genteel Southern drawl rises to a high pitch because he knows you are going to come back at him with a contradiction, a challenge, a word about reality. Otherwise, though, he remains calm; no more than a second or two passes before he's ready with a lengthy answer. Recognizing his secular inarticulateness, he nonetheless slides over questions about the nuclear arms race, the state of the economy--ultimately, all the issues of the election. And he knows that this new-right pitch has shocked and disgusted even his fellow ministers: "When the majority of the religious people in this...
...calm even now; he resembles Father Mulcahy. When you can't respond, he assumes it's because your left-wing liberalism doesn't have the answers, the absolutes, the truth. So you ask him if one can be a Christain without being a right-wing conservative. This one he has to think about because you just told him a minute ago that you were a liberal Christian. Finally, "It's impossible as far as I'm concerned. And I don't think I'm intolerant. I think I'm trying to be truthful, to waken the people up, college students...
Speaking in calm, even tones, Reagan outlined his support for further defense programs and defended his position that he can increase military expenditures, cut taxes and balance the budget...
...strawlike in the unremitting glare of television lights. His soft skin mottles when he tires. The crises, the setbacks, the crushing burdens of the office have aged him a decade in the past four years, but they have not exhausted him nor burned him out. If anything, a calm serenity in private, despite occasional public flashes of vituperation directed at Ronald Reagan, has enveloped that icy-cold ambition driving Carter in the final weeks of this endless campaign...