Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State of Mind." The burden of running a global army rests on the cool, thoughtful officer who occupies Room 3-E-668 in the Pentagon. General Harold Keith Johnson, 53, the 24th U.S. Army Chief of Staff-and the youngest to be appointed since Douglas Mac-Arthur-is a team man of austere, probing intelligence in the managerial mold of McNamara's Pentagon. "Like McNamara," says a Defense Department aide, "Johnson is a computer. But he is a friendly computer...
...possessed, a smoldering Valentino driven by lust and racked with despair. Eyes afire, nostrils flaring, he sprang about the shadowy stage with the fierce grace of a panther. But later in the week, in the pas de deux from Petipa's sprightly Don Quixote, he reverted to the cool precision of his classical discipline. His high, floating leaps were unstrained, his spins whippet-quick, his every move all fluid grace and beauty of line...
Most of the prepared speech she read "Movies: the Cool Art," dealt with the decline of the American cinema, which she attributes to a timidity forced on Hollywood by soaring production costs which must attract huge audiences to break even. "What is there that's geared for the mass market that's any good?" she asked...
...situation, a lot of money has been lost, and about two dozen people are caught up in a cybernetic tangle. We've missed our plane, which isn't our fault, and I was due in Chicago to participate in a meeting forty-five minutes ago. Please cool everybody off, Lord, including...
Stephen Curwood as Randall, the self-educated hood, gave the most inconsistent performance. The biggest problem was switching from the smooth-tongued cool guy to the thoughtful sage, as Randall's schizophrenic character unfolded. Curwood started out with a high, screechy slum accent, which contrasted nicely with the low resonant, unaccented voice of his philosophizing self, but which was irritating to the audience...