Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acceptance of facts not found in most adults. One can't know whether Greek children of this time were much different from American children now, but their too-dispassionate conversation seems, at points, either contrived or more than human. True, this talk is in keeping with the measured, slightly cool tone of much of the narrative even Panagis's approach to love at the end of the novel is treated in an artistically businesslike fashion...
...HAVE TO FEEL a little bit sorry for those poor Fogg Museum administrators. They went out and rose more than $15-million, got told by the University brass that it wasn't good enough, and went and raised mother cool three million for the addition needed so desperately to alleviate their cramped space. Now the result of all that hard work is almost completed officials say the new Sackler museum, named after the man who chipped in seven million dollars for the project, will open next year but once again Fogg officials may be thwarted in their grand plans...
...precincts that contains 90% of the vote. They are concentrating especially on sprawling West Texas, where, says Pouland, "anti-Mondale feeling is pretty strong." Hart wants to revive his New Hampshire touch by warming up to voters through small, personal meetings, a difficult task for a shy, cool man, and by stressing his independence from special interests. At a barbecue last week in Amarillo, Hart did his best, enthusiastically shaking hands with an 8-ft. cowboy on stilts and boldly declaring, "America needs a President who has the courage and the leadership to say no to powerful lobbies that want...
During her husband's term in the White House, Rosalynn Carter was often characterized as a "steel magnolia." In her autobiography, First Lady from Plains (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95), to be published early next month, she does little to defrost that decidedly cool image. By her own account, she is a tireless campaigner and a more cunning strategist than the 39th President. "I am much more political than Jimmy and was more concerned about popularity and winning re-election," she says. "Our most common argument centered on political timing...
...past. Sure enough, however, King of Wu 's Spear and King of Yue's Sword was castigated for "attacking the present by explaining the past." Says another noted playwright: "The general attitude of intellectuals is wait and see. There are still gusts of wind. It will take time to cool down...