Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey, whose impetuosity and trustfulness could prove to be serious liabilities. Humphrey often seems too ready to believe the last person he has talked to and too easily impressed by foreign leaders. Though Nixon has never been particularly popular among America's allies (or foes), he would be cooler, more concerned with basic geopolitics than with the feeling of the moment...
...cooler terms, Professor Philip Hauser of the University of Chicago analyzes what he calls the "social-morphological revolution," the changing forms within society. Its four elements, according to Hauser: the population explosion, the population implosion that has made for densely populated central cities, the mixing of diverse population groups, and the accelerated tempo of technological and social change...
Although he never mentioned Chicago directly, Clark gave a considerably cooler perspective. "Experience to date shows that such crowds [of demonstrators] can be controlled without denying rights of speech and assembly," he said. "Above all, such crowds can be controlled without excessive force and violence by police. Of all violence, police violence in excess of authority is the most dangerous. For who will protect the public when the police violate...
...course. Some of the shock feeling is caused by a kind of historical provincialism: one often tends to feel that one's own time, one's particular moment, is the worst, the most significant ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century...
...whole week, it has been hot. And there are not too many ways to get away from the heat. You can walk around outside, because it is usually cooler out there, or go to the Brattle and watch a W. C. Fields movie you have seen three times already on television, or you can sleep in Lamont, just lie down and sleep, because it is air-conditioned there...