Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protests and stronger student government. It also proposed the creation of a 15-man board of visitors to check out complaints about the operation of each of the university's 15 schools. The boards would include trustee-appointed alumni, students, administrators and outside specialists. But Kirk is cool even to that modest proposal...
...company last week gave the U.S. premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's dark, somber statement of musical theosophy, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder). Schoenberg wrote it in 1917 as an oratorio, but left it unfinished at his death in 1951. Santa Fe presented it as a visually cool, shadow-filled, dreamlike mystery play. In the final scene, the Dying Person (Soprano Patricia Wise) is led up a silver-covered staircase as she approaches death; then she begins to realize that she has gone through many other lives and deaths, and her anguish turns to joy and awakening...
...Humphrey will need to win in Chicago, the Vice President's operatives are straining to promote an open convention, lest the critics' outcries of "fix" tarnish his victory. Humphrey's survival in November, they reason, depends upon his emerging from Chicago with the image of a cool, competent and widely popular candidate. Bitter floor fights, coupled with the expected massive demonstrations outside the hall, would hardly foster that impression...
Although these programs-and similar ones in other cities-all seem partly designed to cool the heat of racial tensions, nobody expects them to cure the ills of the ghettos. Says Washington's James L. Jones, director of youth programs for the District of Columbia mayor's office: "Problems that are not caused by music are not solved by music." But pending longer-range social solutions, curbstone concerts at least serve a useful role as entertainment, education, and reassurance to ghetto residents that they are not forgotten...
...Christ minister who works with teen-agers on Chicago's North Side, believes that using pot should be an individual decision. In counseling a youth, Tuttle says, "I inform him of the most pervasive medical opinions and of the legal hassle. Then I tell him to be cool about...