Word: lullingly
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Most businessmen, looking at their own sales and order charts, saw only a shower. Even those who had once talked loudly of depression now spoke of a "rolling readjustment," a "mild recession" or a "lull." The new cliché was "let's be realistic." Being "realistic" meant a drop, at most, in the gross national product of 5% to 10% (or back to about the level of 1952) and a rise in unemployment to 3,500,000. But such "realism" did not necessarily mean that the economy would be much shaken...
...doomsayers who see every business lull as the onset of recession came some advice from Oldtime New Dealer David E. Lilienthal: "A country can become a hypochondriac too, just as a person can. A country can fall into the habit of popping a fever thermometer into its mouth to take its economic temperature every hour on the hour, listening anxiously to its every heartbeat, and forever psychoanalyzing itself. Frankly, we've had a bit too much of this lately...
...used if a nicer word can be found. Thus, a whole new vocabulary has evolved. In the new jargon, a recession can be a "rolling readjustment," a "correction," a "slippage," an "easing," a "mild dip," a "downswing," a "normal adjustment," a "leveling off," a "slight downturn," a "lull," a "return to normalcy" or a "thingumajig." These euphemisms, of course, also defy definition. What, for instance, is a "return to normalcy," when for decades no one has known what economic normalcy...
...earnest pursuit of truth, to wherever it may lead. There is still a healthy respect for ideas, a vicious competition between them, and a realization that professors are not supermen with super-human responsibilities, but just people, with all the rights and foibles of same. As revered in the lull of 1928 as in the crisis of 1953, these principles are part of a truly conservative tradition of the University, a tradition that makes it even today "calm rising through change and through storm...
...Robbins, who knows his audiences (from his work for such hits as The King and I and The Cage), thought moderns would be bored by the tired old staging of Nijinsky's Faun, wanted to do something new that "recaptured its tensions." He got his idea during a lull in a ballet practice session, watching a youngster languorously stretching at the barre and enjoying the movements of his own body. The ballet's evolution was neither easy nor fast: three years after the original idea came to him, Robbins got down to work, took six weeks to whip...