Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paintings and drawings, done on the Riviera in 1946, had none of the nightmare violence that characterized Picasso's wartime work. Goats, nymphs, centaurs, children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool color, sang and played pipes, swam, fished, ate dinner and slept under the trees. The one warlike note was a comic-strip series of sketches showing a duel between centaurs, which ended with the loser crumpled across a broken arrow and the horned winner looking downcast. The figures were almost all distorted, but never cruelly so. The surprising twists...
Broad as his range and virtuosity are, it seems possible that Olivier's greatest gifts are for comedy, especially for comedy which works close to the tragic. Like every first-rate comedian's, his sense of reality is strong and cool; his understanding of "the modesty of nature," and his regard for it, are exceptionally acute. Those who venerate the best in acting will easily forgive the rare excesses in this Hamlet, and will easily get over disappointments as beautiful as these; they will not soon forget the lively temperateness, the perfect commingling of blood and judgment...
...muggy heat of emotions and premature summer weather one man remained crisp and cool. Having weathered other bitter crises, France's Premier Robert Schuman was quietly awaiting his next test: the summing up at the end of the debate this week, and the Assembly's vote. Bidault was feeling the temperature more than his chief was. When he had finished his halting defense of the London agreement, the Foreign Minister walked slowly from the rostrum and took his seat on the government bench. He was sweating, but he muttered to Robert Schuman: "J'ai froid...
Chips Down. Next day, with the chips down, cool Ben played Riviera as if he owned it. On "Hogan's Alley" that morning he posted a 68. He began the afternoon round with a birdie and finished it by sinking a six-footer-then flipped the ball casually to an admiring youngster and strode into the clubhouse. His score of 276 chopped five strokes off the U.S. Open record (Ralph Guldahl's 281 at Michigan's Oakland Hills Country Club eleven years ago). The runner-up: fancy-pants Jimmy Demaret, last year's top money winner...
...Cool Attitude. "The President," wrote Ickes, "said that Woodring had refused to resign [F.D.R. had offered to make him minister to Canada] . . . Then the President told me the astonishing bit of news that Woodring wanted to go as ambassador to the Court of St. James...