Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showed the transition of a woman from a pampered doll to an independent being. In Hedda Gabler, he examines a woman who has totally left the doll's house in spirit, but who still occupies it out of social convention, a woman trying to "keep house" with desperate calm while undergoing an inner earthquake. One reason that the present production seems so fresh is that Hedda's plight is seen from Hedda's angle of vision. The ultraneurotic Hedda has always been seen from a man's angle of vision and caters to the male notion...
BEFORE DECEMBER 1, those of us who talked about dropping out didn't dare do it. We spoke of it as some speak of revolution, but in a personal context: calm, carnest explanations of our own mixtures of problems: assertive predictions about the curative effects of dropping out: and finally, in dull tones, with a shrug, the admission that it couldn't really happen...
...remained calm about the rejection which Miss Chesire had reported. "Maxine made the engagement, and I suppose there is no reason why she can't call it off." He said that he and Tricia were "good friends" but "certainly not engaged...
...chair through the screen of the television set at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. His birthday-Sept. 14-had come up No. 1 in the national draft lottery. Harvard Senior Nat Spiller, too nervous to watch the drawing on TV, was playing pingpong in an attempt to calm himself. Returning to his room when the selection was well under way, he looked at a list his roommates had been keeping and slumped into a chair. His birthday had come up fourth. Across the country in California, Stanford University Sophomore Tyler Comann stared at his roommate, Charles Thulin, in disbelief...
Wildcat forwards began chasing Harvard defensemen into the corners with determination almost immediately, and only the Crimson's calm retention of its position play style, combined with junior Bruce Durno's superb goaltending, kept New Hampshire...