Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less than a year ago was an empty field. Europe's biggest supermarket opened two years ago on the exclusive Calle Velázquez. In a dim, dark-paneled bar on the Avenida de las Americas, boys in long hair and girls in white Vartan stockings sit carefully cool and immobile as a yé-yé band blasts out a yeah-yeah beat...
...city displayed an astonishing reserve of cool in crisis, never succumbing to panic or total paralysis. But the damage, like almost all statistics about New York, was impressive. Everywhere, there were shuttered shops, empty offices, unanswered telephones, vacant theater seats, unused barber chairs, empty streets where there should have been crowds. An extraordinary number of people somehow managed to get to work, but day after day went by without pay for thousands of far-distant clerks, secretaries and laborers who could scarcely afford the loss. Merchants complained that they were losing millions every day. There was no doubt that...
...house with her husband, Lieut. General William Hall (her first marriage to Philosophy Professor Stanley Moore ended in divorce in 1948), raised two children and cultivated an impressive list of sources. In 1963, she left the Trib to become a columnist for Newsday. She knew how to take a cool, levelheaded look at world affairs, and she disdained those commentators who were addicted to "romantic nonsense." In 1962, long before most other pundits got around to it, Maggie warned that the Russians were entering Cuba in ominously large numbers. She was one of the first to report that the Viet...
...onetime ambassador to Turkey, niece of former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., a Radcliffe graduate ('33) and wife of a Park Avenue physician, Mrs. Tuchman proved in Guns that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord...
...young, not-too-attractive, visits Italy and meets Tancredi, a dapper, middle-aged architect living apart from his wife and family. Because Sophie seems to him like a piece of important information he must acquire, Tancredi sets out to seduce her. Sophie finally, almost wearily, succumbs. Then the cool lovers discover that they are madly in love-but briefly, advisedly and with muted consent. Eventually they part...