Word: cool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene as the original Angry Young Man in Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Now, in 1979 (the year he turns 47, 49 or 50, depending on what source you credit), Haigh is the Stoic Middle-Aged Man. Clearly at home in Shakespeare's language, Haigh speaks with cool conviction and command, and a feeling for the verse rhythms...
DIED. Conn McCreary, 58, racehorse trainer and jockey who won the Kentucky Derby aboard Pensive in 1944 and Count Turf in 1951; of a heart attack; in Ocala, Fla. The 4-ft. 8-in. McCreary won a reputation as a savvy, cool horseman during a 21-year career, and was elected to horse racing's Hall of Fame...
...newcomers to economic summitry, Japan's Ohira, the chairman of the meeting, seemed to his colleagues to be unable to control the discussions. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher again came across as a very tough leader, and Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark seemed to other summiteers to be cool and precise...
...complex, fascinating personality. Here is the reluctant scribe of rebellion, Owen Ruagh MacCarthy, a vagabond poet who scrounges a living by running an outlaw school, reciting his Gaelic verses in the houses of the rich and pursuing neutral grain spirits and colleens with unflagging energy. Here, in the cool rationality of Moore Hall, is MacCarthy's fellow Catholic and countryman George Moore, historian of the French Revolution and Cassandra of its Irish offspring, dreading that "the spirit of Rousseau is in the very air these days, like dandelion puffballs." Recording the contagion, as one of the novel...
...still prone to overripe passages, but some of his audacious effects work memorably. He describes the madam of a French brothel sitting in her establishment, "enthroned in wigged splendour like a very very old ice cream of a deposed empress." At its frequent best, Livia offers a world of cool, dark enchantment...