Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday of every Freshman Week, President Horner advises incoming Yardlings to take Hellman's advice and "keep cool but do not freeze." The AWACS telex incident suggests that she might do well to add "Look before you leap" to her repertoire of useful maxims. Advocacy in the interests of raising the level of public debate befits a University president well But posturing in the absence of expertise does no one any good...
...extra five-minute period provided a few surprises: Harvard remained cool and built a modest two-point lead going into the final minute and then hit four consecutive last-second free throws to ice the victory, two by Joe Carrabino and two by Dixon...
...sides ever cut, offers a more sweeping reason for the languishing rock culture. Contrary to the shared assumptions of the Woodstock generation, he insists, "rock isn't the best possible tool for insulting your parents or establishing the fact that you are a free person. Kids are too cool for that now." Certainly the music is cool, not in Wexler's hipster sense, but in mean degrees. A go-for-broke performer-someone who, like Springsteen or Pete Townshend, has the temerity to believe that rock not only matters, but matters deeply-is working...
...fledgling nation. Instead the country struggles as a population of 92 million, likely to double by the turn of the century, labors under what is said to be the second worst case of poverty in the world, squeezing out the food from a land increasingly barren. Only the most cool-headed of agriculture and population policies, along with massive doses of foreign aid, can avert the starvation of millions...
...Hepburn may not be talking good sense in West Side Waltz, but when she puts her incandescent ardor behind any given sentence, you'd better believe it. Lauren Bacall is no great shakes as a dancer or singer, but when she fixes a playgoer with those tigress eyes, cool judgment succumbs to shimmering illusion...