Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest cool competence I rather than passion or brilliance. They are problem solvers rather than idea brokers. They span the Republican midsection from the moderate progressives to the responsible conservatives, stopping short of ideological extremes. They are mostly affluent, some in the millionaire bracket, but they earned their money rather than inheriting it. There are no blooded patricians in the lot, just strivers who have acted out the middle-class dream. Thus, as much as any dozen individuals can, Richard Nixon's new Cabinet members mirror the qualities of their boss, of the campaign he waged, of the aspirations...
...passage from Galen (which is somewhere) was irrevocable. Moonlight moved towards death in the growing eye of Keddel (who is someone), talking, never writing and so his words were embarrassing, almost sentimental. She, with her cool exterior, was astonished. His eloquence was the danger--he talked with such ease of all the normal things--of birth and death and life and love and art and war and soul--with the kind of maxims one wants to take to bed. And yet in the end are never satisfying...
...being kept in Dresden the day allied bombers came over with a huge incendiary bomb attack that started a fire storm which killed 135,000 people. Vonnegut survived because he was in a cool meatlocker under a slaughterhouse. It all provides the base for his war book; it also is probably the basis of a lot of his other thoughts...
McCarthy's cool attitude toward politics this fall, however, and Rockefeller's near disappearance from the national scene, have left the liberals with a vacuum of leadership--which men like Allard Lowenstein are now trying to step into...
...restrain the economy. One of his thorniest economic problems, of course, will be inflation. Any concerted drive to stop the price spiral would involve deflationary steps that could increase unemployment. McCracken would probably be willing to see the jobless rate rise slightly above the current 3.6% in order to cool the feverish economy. But he is unlikely to tolerate the 5%-plus rate that some economists and businessmen think is nec essary. In a recent speech, he noted that the people hurt most by job cutbacks would be impoverished Americans, primarily Negroes. Therefore, he says, "We must learn to live...