Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have memories? Saunter in to afternoon tea or stretch out on the sands in toreador pants--close-fitting, high-waisted, utterly suitable for casual entertainment. Return from the beach and shed your tappa cloth: shantung in any style takes away the taint of informality. It goes anywhere in cool evenings...
...before we met him, thought he was a bandit leader who had pushed himself to the top of his government. That impression was wrong. We knew at once that we were dealing with a highly intelligent man . . ." Said Churchill: "Stalin left upon me an impression of deep, cool wisdom and absence of illusions," added that he had "a very captivating manner when he chooses . . ." Said Roosevelt: "Altogether, quite impressive...
That modern civilization was headed straight for the pit, Santayana had few doubts. From his contemplative seat on the sidelines of life, he issued a mixture of cool wisdom and cold comfort on the subject: "Things have their day, and their beauties in that day . . . Ruins give ground for hope; for although nothing can last forever, now and then good seasons may return...
...French government, ever a thin reed, bent last week under a gale of resentment blowing out of German-speaking, French-minded Alsace. To cool Alsatians' anger at the verdict in the Oradour massacre trial (TIME, Feb. 23), Premier René Mayer hustled through the Assembly a law decreeing amnesty for all Frenchmen forcibly drafted by the Germans during World War II. It had the immediate effect of granting pardons to 13 Alsatians who, pressed into the Nazis' SS, had participated in the wartime rape of Oradour-sur-Glane...
...late '30s, Root slacked off his buying. But after World War II, he started picking up samples of the new abstract art. He was one of the earliest to buy Theodoros Stamos' dreamily delicate work, Jackson Pollock's paint-spattered canvases, and Mark Tobey's cool, almost Oriental calligraphy...