Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call upon those of my fellow students who are sincerely dedicated to the cause of social justice for all Americans, to sacrifice superficial, emotionally satisfying demonstrations and return to the cool, reasoned approach that characterized our movement under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King. Only by such total dedication can we achieve our ends...
McCarthy is sardonic, still of hand, low or octane, occasionally obscure, nearly always cucumber-cool. He is so relaxed that when he reached one stop in Los Angeles a little early, he gave his talk immediately and was on his way out when most of his listeners were coming in. Humphrey is the old-school orator: expansive, ringing, grand and open in gesticulation. It is ironic that Kennedy, despite his scorn for Humphrey's "politics of joy," frequently generates a carnival atmosphere that approaches frenzy...
There was the ill-starred Lamb Chop, champion filly who broke a leg and had to be shot; the ill-starred Kauai King, Derby winner who pulled up lame six weeks later and never raced again; the ill-starred Cool Reception, who finished second in the Belmont on three legs...
That there is plenty of petty rubbish onstage no one will deny, but the current abdication of audiences is indicative of a far subtler melody-they are rejecting the most intensive contact that can exist among human beings outside their private lives. As opposed to those who play it cool, the theater at its passionate best plays it nothing but hot. With molten fury it welds mind to mind, heart to heart, skin to skin, and soul to soul. Whenever the theater is weak, it is because man is denying man and shielding his feeblest self from the pain, power...
...death. And I awoke in anger, so alone and terrified. I put my fingers against the glass and bowed my head and cried." Saint Augustine is a despairing Christian philosopher who tears around trying to convert the un-Christian. Dylan admires him tremendously. Not because he believes Christianity is cool or because he even necessarily believes in God. The message is that it's really important to believe in something, anything, any religion, anything meaningful enough to tell you why we're around and to answer all the questions he asked in Visions of Johanna. Saint Augustine has "a voice...