Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Directory survives," said a White House aide, "the government survives." The phrase was oddly evocative of 18th century Paris. And so, with precious little else in common with the French Revolution, were the mindless mob scenes in Saigon last week. More remarkable was the Administration's notably cool assessment of a perilous situation that had seemingly been plotted to provoke an intemperate reaction from Washington...
Berryman's remarks about his own work, of course, must be taken with a little salt and some cool water. They are devastatingly commonsensical. "There's been an effort, sponsored by Lowell and by other people, to identify me with Henry, which won't work, because I'm obviously not Henry, I mean I have a social security number, and pay taxes, and have an insurance policy and so forth; whereas Henry is a completely undetermined human American male, seeking his identity, and being dissatisfied with it when it is found. I don't buy any of that...
...Their main fear is that we're communists and if we can get rid of that we might have a chance," he said. An ex-marine, now a member of CNVA, may distribute a leaflet explaining pacifism in an attempt to "cool people...
Miserly Mood. Before he makes up his mind about a tax increase, the President seemed determined to talk the entire nation into a miserly mood in order to cool off the economic advance. Dining with some 200 businessmen at the White House, he asked: "How many of you would recommend tomorrow a tax in crease for the purpose of restraining our economy? Those of you that would, I wish you would raise your right hand." Not a hand went up. In that case, said Johnson, he would expect them to defer, stretch out or abandon at least $6 billion...
Newman responds sharply as a cool and clean-cut Bogeyman who never drinks hard stuff in the morning, never chases broads except for business purposes. His wife, Janet Leigh, loves him, hates his job, wants to slow him down just long enough to settle her suit for divorce...