Word: cools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven-league boots employing his power as President of the United States to stride across the world and preach: 'Come, let us reason together.' " As for this week's flight with Richard Nixon, Sidey reports that preparations have been like the campaign: "cool, meticulous, competent. The trip has been plotted with care and it is expected to unwind with precision...
...Space" is a song about being spaced-out. It starts slowly, as a stoned-steady guitar beat reverberating through an echo chamber accompanies the cool voices that weave in and out. "My body is walking in space/ My soul is in orbit with God, face to face," the eerie voices tell us, and we can believe in their moonglow-bathed hallucinations. But no sooner is the mood established, than composer Galt Mac Dermot and lyricists Gerome Ragni and James Rado destroy it by tipping their hats to the Times Square crowd. All of a sudden the chorus hippies are yelling...
...delegation earned high marks and persuaded even the skeptics that the U.S. economy is in good hands. The Europeans wanted some indication of U.S. determination to handle its No. 1 economic problem: inflation. The Americans did not disappoint them. "If we have one objective, it is to try to cool the overheated economic situation," said Paul McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The main priority, observed Paul A. Volcker, the Treasury's new Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, "is to regain control over inflation." Under Secretary of State Elliot Richardson added that "we intend...
...temperature in Quebec City was 10° F., and Princess Grace of Monaco, in town for the annual Winter Carnival and a visit to an old friend, Mrs. Gilles Lamontagne, wife of the mayor, was appropriately cool and collected when newsmen collared her for some comments. On the problem of raising bilingual children (French and English): "I'm still waiting for someone to write a handbook on it." On the trials of being an exactress: she finds it "flattering" to receive film offers but politely declines them. As for films in general: "I'm awfully tired of seeing...
...writing sound only slightly more difficult than drawing a will. He acknowledges the existence of problems and flounderings, but they all seem to succumb to his analytic brain. In addition, he appears to know just where he stands: "I am neither a satirist nor a cheerleader," he says with cool assurance. "I am strictly an observer." An honorable position honestly stated, it should quiet those critics who want an Auchincloss novel to be more than a well-crafted, highly polished portrait of the world he knows...