Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...chosen to lull the rest of the world, to relax the external pressure in the cold war by seeming to give much and actually giving little, is an old and skilled hand at the game. He is Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Foreign Minister of Russia and Communism's Old Reliable-who has been a member of the Politburo longer than anyone else (32 years...
...they are, the Chinese accompanied their new truce offers with strong ground attacks on the U.N. battle line. They gave no indication as to why they had extended the olive branch again. Bitter experience had convinced most U.S. observers that Communist concessions are always made in the hope of lulling opponents into dangerous relaxation. The lull the Communists were seeking this time, however, may come in any one of three handy sizes...