Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ONLY BEGUN to realize that war kills and the Great Society starves when police carted Lenny Bruce to the morgue. Bruce was cool, he was funny. Harrassed by narcotics and obscenity charges, Bruce was sick--but not with the diseases the grand juries called him to account for. He was a symptom of the biased, uptight, closed-fisted society he satirized: if there were peace and tranquility, Bruce commented, then he would be there in the unemployment line with Herbert Hoover and Jonas Salk...
...simple folk of the cool highlands, the future has never looked bleaker. "It is possible the Montagnards will survive," says American Anthropologist Gerald Hickey, "but I doubt if they will be any more than a poverty-stricken fringe group...
...METAPHOR is too slick a formula. He has poached inconsistently on the terrain Arthur Miller familiarized: Shopworn sales talk has become the idiom of a society based on manipulation, commercial go-getting has been universalized as a private ethic, preservation of personal integrity means self-destruction. These are his cool assumption, the truisms of one who has seen-it-all. Sentimentially is a demon to him, so he lavishes heavy filmic methods in an effort to play it tough, and it is wholly at the expense of his material. He has twisted the form of his film into the shape...
...Harvard Business School last spring. At the time I felt something no other black politician had ever generated within me. Bond, conservatively clad in dark suit and tie, was the very picture of the black preppy. He walked casually to the podium exuding with every step the renowned "cool" that has long been his trademark. The cherubic Georgia peachy face elicited sighs from the women. His delivery was a crisp clear monotone, carefully measured and light on rhetoric. Here, I thought, was a no-nonsense radical black man who could speak his mind and get away with it because...
...casually with whomever she bumps into. She has become considerably sophisticated in the years since her coronation when, as one court observer puts it, she appeared to be a "terribly stiff, cardboard figure." On a visit to Stirling University in Scotland a few weeks ago, the Queen kept her cool even though she was jeered and jostled by a mob of angry students. "Did you know that I had to miss school because you're here today?" one of them shouted at her. Elizabeth smiled and calmly replied: "Aside from that, how are you enjoying your work here...