Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barbara Brown, who is already getting cool looks from some of her former friends because of her outspoken campaign, is still sure that the situation is far from exaggerated. Last week the county school board was still studying the whole matter. Said County Superintendent I. F. Simmons: "If these organizations come, into the schools to the extent that other children are humiliated, I see that we have almost unlimited jurisdiction to see that the organizations are removed...
...music topic in Los Angeles last week was the cool jazz of a gaunt, hungry-looking young (25) fellow named Gerry Mulligan, who plays the baritone saxophone. For the past three months, Mulligan's quartet has been performing in a nightclub known as the Haig, a spot that has featured such stalwarts as Red Norvo and Erroll Garner-and he was drawing the biggest crowds in the club's history. Says the Haig's happy manager: "People just like his kind of sound...
...been in battle before: in World War II, he was an artillery battalion commander in the Pacific. An ex-officer who served under him remembers him as "the kind of guy who never got ruffled. He could wade through mud and keep clean, be under fire and keep cool...
...poor guy hasn't had much experience. He asks straight as far as he can till he meets another skier, or a tree, or a bump, and then he falls down. When he gets up he tries again. But he's happy. He loves the feel of the cool clear crystals in his early, the wind whipping by his watering eyes, and the relaxing ride...
...light of mercy never shines on Akutagawa's parade of adulterers, murderers and bigots, he sometimes seems as cool and distant to human frailty as the grey shale that lines the heights of Fujiyama. But the sources of his own nihilism are made poignantly clear in a poem he penned a few months before his suicide...