Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silent at first, the suspect later repeated over and over: "I wish to remain incommunicado." He did not seem particularly nervous. Reddin described him as "very cool, very calm, very stable and quite lucid." John Doe demanded the details of a sexy Los Angeles murder case. "I want to ask the questions now," he remarked. "Why don't you answer my questions?" He talked about the stock market, an article on Hawaii that he had read recently, his liking for gardening, his belief that criminal justice discriminates against the underdog. When he felt that the investigators were talking down...
...resignation is dictated solely by administrative practices of your office," said the curt letter, which went on to accuse the writer's employer of "maladministration" and "executive undercutting." The angry author was a man usually known for his cool-John Charles Daly, 54, for nearly two decades the urbane, polysyllabic quizmaster on CBS's What's My Line? Last year Daly switched his own line to take charge of the Voice of America. Things hummed along mellifluously until Daly left last April for a six-week Asian tour, only to learn on his return that...
...Franklin Clark Fry, it was unthinkable that God's business should be carried out with less professional dispatch than man's. Gavel in hand, he presided over ecumenical gatherings or sessions of his Lutheran Church in America with the cool parliamentary aplomb of a Speaker of the House-a job for which many of his clerical admirers thought him well-suited. Yet he was also a man of deep faith who saw the unification of divided Christendom as a divine imperative for the twentieth century. When he died of cancer last week at the age of 67, seven...
...look at this phenomenon of radicalization is to look at the history of student activism on university campuses this year. The focus will be on the events of October, 1967, and April, 1968, when outside events--the work of the self-destructive Establishment--managed to turn hordes of cool liberals into hot radicals and managed to build a movement...
...morning, they came home to school to tell their friends about it. At a rally in the Yard, once one-time cool-liberals were talking in hot-radical tones about what had happened, and the word brought a reaction...