Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaigning for the mayoralty, found it so useful a means of divining local troubles that he kept it up after his election. For the past two summers, whenever the city seemed on the verge of riot, he discovered that merely by being on hand he could often cool a tense situation in the ghetto. "I wanted the people to know," he says, "that this city hall was aware of neighborhood problems...
...Murray's symbol of civilized society, and in writing about it, he once unconsciously described himself: "The cohesiveness of the city is not hot and humid, like the climate of the animal kingdom. It lacks the warmth of love and unreasoning loyalty that pervades the family. It is cool and dry, with the coolness and dryness that characterize good argument among informed and responsible...
Dangerous Defiance. Pravda did not print the letter, and Voznesensky did not cool off. A few days later, at a poetry reading in a Moscow theater, he expanded his indictment to take in all the boorishness in Soviet culture that was epitomized by Khrushchev's shoe banging...
...Cotter simply dropped the route. His half-sister Baby Doe, 16, was a swinging streetwalker whose IQ (according to welfare and school records) had fallen from 117 to 82 since the third grade. Warner O'Seyre, a Negro schoolteacher who knew many of the ghetto kids, tried to cool the riot once it broke; yet to the raging Negroes of the ghetto, he seemed half Whitey himself. On one occasion, before Watts broke, O'Seyre's young son, raised in an integrated neighborhood, spotted a Negro in Griffith Park and said: "Look, Daddy, there...
However much Cortazar may remind readers of Poe, Maupassant, and Camus, his cool style and gothic viewpoint make him a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night. What is it-a burglar, beast or spectral thing? If it occurs in a Cortazar story, it is likely to be something nameless and decidedly lethal...