Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wear leather soles on a deck, never touch polished brass), insist on such levity as cocktail flags-or worse, flags that show a ball and chain (wife aboard), or a battle ax (mother-in-law aboard). They will foul the fine, salty lines of nautical language with mere jibberish, cool their beer with CO fire extinguishers, are blissfully ignorant of the well-founded Rules of the Road...
...spontaneous burst of sound and color of the Mangrove Coast, where thousands of roosting ibis, egrets, anhingas and spoonbills toy, and where silver tarpon jump by moonlight and coons and otters feed and play. They fish under the dawn-pink sky out of San Diego, and in the cool basins of the Colorado mountains. And they can just laze...
...exam period has not yet begun and the library is already full. If the warm weather of last week returns, Lamont may be one of the few cool places left in the College. To stem the flood of refugees from the heat, Lamont might well check bursar's cards or, better still, install parking meters on the study cubicles. These measures would keep out outsiders, discourage nonscholars, and bring in even more money than library fines. Let the unwanted beat a path to Widener...
This patched up Hellenism, but it could not revitalize it spiritually. Into the deserted streets of the spirit crept Stoicism and Epicureanism, cool in faith, cooler in comfort. Astrology was in vogue together with "archaism," an aping of the past for the sake of novelty. The death of Hellenism in the fall of the Roman Empire was not caused by a "triumph of religion and barbarism," says Toynbee, taking issue with Gibbon. As Toynbee sees it, Christianity did not put the torch to the classic world; it lit one for it in the sightless dark...
Some German businessmen were openly cool to U.S. investment. "American stock purchases overseas," said Georg Bruns, manager of the Frankfurt stock exchange, "often have a speculative character. We need sound, long-term support from .our shareholders. Also, Germany must export capital to rid itself of high currency reserves. There are already not enough shares to meet demand...