Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, but it is fleshed with verbal luxuriance and approached by a dozen roads as twisted and surprising as the narrow alleyways in the dense Attarine Quarter. Justine is seen from many angles-through the despairing eyes of her first husband, in her own diary, through the cool and critical intelligence of Clea, a woman painter. Nessim discusses Justine endlessly; the Irish narrator seeks to define and grasp her attraction. Clea perhaps comes closest when she says: "After all Justine cannot be justified or excused. She simply and magnificently is; we have to put up with her, like original...
...Visibly cool at first, the governors, chaired by New Hampshire's Dwinell, offered suggestions of their own, e.g., surrender to the Federal Government of the entire civil defense program, a federal-state agreement limiting federal aid to schools in "impacted areas." Bob Anderson heard them out politely, led them away from such side issues and from their desire to remain only a study group. Said he: "Let's aim for some solid accomplishment." As the conference adjourned to let federal-state staffs work out details of its decisions, so much had been accomplished that federal representatives were already...
...rock gardens behind the bamboo walls of private homes, artificial fountains gurgle, and tiny bells tinkle to the slightest breeze. Traffic cops, sweating in their summer khakis, pause to admire carefully arranged clusters of chrysanthemums set in their dusty control stations, sip glasses of hot green tea to keep cool. And even the most suicidal of taxi drivers is more likely than not to have at least one flower vase in his careening chariot...
Double Life. The postwar impact of the West, and particularly of the U.S., has created a striking duality in the lives of Tokyo's plain people. They wear Western clothes to work, slip into cool kimonos or yukata at home. They drink coffee or eat popsicles at midmorning, have curried rice, raw fish or veal cutlet for lunch, go home to green tea, rice, seaweed, lily bulb, lotus root and bean curd. They go to see Marilyn Monroe at the cinema one night, follow this up (finances permitting) with long excursions to lengthy and painstakingly stylized classic Japanese Kabuki...
...sank (May 8, 1942) in the Battle of the Coral Sea; of a heart ailment; in San Diego. A World War I submarine commander, "Ted" Sherman (no kin to his fellow admiral, the late Forrest Sherman) learned to fly at 47, took command of the Lexington in 1940. A cool leader under fire, he was a hard-hitting senior task-group commander within the Fast Carrier Task Force, in one four-month period destroyed 350 enemy aircraft, 46 enemy ships, in his combat-starred Navy career won three Navy Crosses...