Word: cools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grace is a hallmark of the times. It is perhaps significant that the young who have made it so constitute the most intensively educated generation in U.S. history; the endocrine charge that goes with intemperate talk and action may be nature's way of counterbalancing an overemphasis on cool rationality, much as a calcium-deficient child is moved to nibble plaster off the wall. Miss Terry's style of gut theater fits in with this new act-it-out, confrontation mode. But the excitement of real life does not transfer to the stage like a decalcomania. The endocrine...
Appointed Sheriff last February by Governor Volpe, after the death of the Democratic incumbent, Sears has innovated an imaginative "volunteer deputy" program to compensate for a lack of foot patrolmen in the city. His theory is that local leaders can cool a street fight or budding riot better than uniformed police, and people in Dorchester and Roxbury would undoubtedly agree...
Scholars have reacted to Wilson's charges with something less than cool objectivity. "Edmund Wilson, who is to be admired and cherished for the things he can do, has made a fool of himself this time. He is very, very wrong," says Dr. Matthew Bruccoli, head of the English Department at Ohio State University, which is producing the M.L.A.'s Hawthorne edition. Twain Scholar Hen ry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley complains that "Wilson paws and snorts like a bull moose. He seems to be saying that we should correct serious distortions, but doesn...
...explain why he expects the Administration's policies to cool the U.S. economy soon, Economist Walter W. Heller last week recalled an old poker-room joke that, he said, he had heard from President Johnson. It has to do with a professional dealer who is getting an unexpected show of strength from one of the local yokels. "Reuben," says the shark, "you better play fair, because I know exactly what I dealt...
...just a modern romancer-to go all the way with her unnerved vision. Her trouble is that she seems to regard her book variously as a black-humor exercise, a parable of national sickness of heart, and, worst of all, a realistic piece of social reportage. Too cool for fantasy, too hysterical for imagination, Expensive People says too little half the time, and too much the other half...