Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affable, backslapping do-nothing. Evans campaigned on a 35-point "Blue-print for Progress," also profited from questions raised about Rosellini's "illegaily obtained" campaign funds, his connections with the patronage-ridden State Liquor Control Board. A Seattle civil engineer and state representative, Evans was cool to Goldwater, won both moderate and conservative support, stripped Rosy's petals...
Bellotti's sense of security seems to have been broken during a sound-truck procession through Roxbury Saturday night. The citizens of Roxbury gave him a cool reception. They had been widely advised of Governor Volpe's liberal civil rights statements...
...invisible power in the sky, a river of sand flows endlessly over the rim of the pit. In a matter of days it would drown the house and anyone in it. So every night and all night long, while the wind lies still and the air is cool, the woman shovels sand into buckets and sends the buckets up the rope. If no sand comes out of the pit, she explains, no food will be sent back in return. The man is aghast. "Don't you feel that all this is meaningless?" he asks. "Moving sand to live, living...
...British philosophers and essayists of the past three centuries are more admired than read. Impeccably cool and collected, preening themselves on their rationalism, they leave the present impassioned age cold indeed. Yet these writers played a large part in shaping modern notions of good and evil, pleasure and pain, freedom and tyranny. They are also eminently readable, writes Basil Willey, English-literature professor for 18 years at Cambridge. His engaging little book may well spark a rationalist revival...
...your October 15th issue you supported Bobby Kennedy's drive to unseat Senator Ken Keating in New York. The Crimson endorsement did not display the balanced and judicious reasoning, cool eye, and steady judgment usually so evident in your editorial column. Had you displayed your customary good form, I do think you would have been kinder to Senator Keating...