Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of North China's people accepted the Red threat with wizened calm. A typical point of view was shown by a note on the bulletin board of a club in Tangshan, center of the richest coal-mining region in all Nationalist China. The note read:"For sale-Hawaiian guitar, on view at the club. Keep your spirits up by playing the above. (Signed) Honorable Secretary...
...clicked over the strings, picking out every sixteenth note, even giving each a slight vibrate. Loveliest of all was the Andante of the last work. Schneider never overdid the sentiment, and the steady beat of the pedal point through the melody held the music to a moving, but ever-calm reserve...
...voice that was no longer calm and steady the old man said: "My day's work is done...
...calm Sunday morning in Princeton, N.J. and the door of the red brick building was securely locked. Two college boys rattled the knob and shouted: "Einstein! We want Einstein!" Pausing on her way to church, a lady inquired what the matter was. The boys explained: they were fraternity pledges at Bucknell University who had been dumped out the night before on a lonely road 200 miles from Princeton, with orders to thumb their way to "that place where Einstein thinks" and bring back his signature...
Your suggestion that the U.S. should withdraw from Chiang Kai-shek and view the probable communistic domination of China with calm, as brought, out in your editorial "Chinese Puzzle" (Nov. 6), appears to be quite practical, but is actually a masterpiece of near-sighteness. That Harry Truman is a follower of this same policy is only another factor that makes his recent victory such a tragic event...