Word: placid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mature perspective and a polish in writing and construction rare in the work of more experienced novelists. Simply as a novel, however, Love Is a Bridge has two failings. The first, lack of depth in the characterizations, is perhaps not surprising in so young an author. The second, a placid mellowness of approach, is curious precisely because of the author's youth...
Austria's placid art world was stirred up over a new stained-glass window. When it was first installed three years ago in the Church of the Holy Blood in Graz (pop. 226,453), nobody noticed anything unusual about it. But last month workmen renovating the church spotted two churlish types among the Romans watching...
Every city has areas which are despair of the modern-minded civic engineer. Boston is no exception, for Beacon Hill has long and stoutly resisted attempts to remodel it in the prevailing fashion. At the center of this placid conservatism lies Louisburg Square. A fences oblong of greenery flanked by two rows of red brick Bulfinch Houses, the square lies between Pinckney and Mount Vernon Streets on the river side of Beacon Hill...
...cigar-smoking, 32-year-old sculptress named Fiore de Henriquez rippled the placid pond of British art last summer by inspiring venerable (75) Painter Augustus John to work in clay (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week Fiore was showing off her own work at her first one-woman show in London. She was a good show herself, greeting visitors with a middleweight's handclasp, swinging her heavy black mop of hair and dusting her 21 exhibits with the sleeves of her sweater. Her work was less lively than she, but it showed promise...
Most nations take years and shed much blood running the political gamut from monarchy to anarchy. But in the placid, unruffled Maldive Islands, which lie some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon in the Indian Ocean, these things are done more calmly. Last January, after centuries of autocratic rule under a sultanate, the Maldives became the world's youngest republic by simple popular vote (TIME, Jan. 12). There was no trouble whatever; the sultans had long since tired of their confining work, and Amin Didi, the man the Maldivians unanimously elected to serve as both President and Prime Minister...