Word: placid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attlee studied law, unenthusiastically entered his father's firm prepared to practice a little and to read a lot of history on the side. He might have continued on that placid course but for an old schoolmate who invited him to spend an evening at Haileybury House. This was a settlement house run by Attlee's old school in London's Limehouse district. Attlee began helping out at Haileybury House a few evenings a week. The experience changed his life. "The condition of the people in that area, as I saw them at close quarters...
...ability to be placid in the midst of storm and stress has given him his peculiarly firm hold over the Socialist Party. He cannot be rushed. He cannot be stampeded by a flood of oratory. In the cabinet room of No. 10, even the most eloquent minister may find that during his choicest arguments Attlee has been deeply absorbed in some pencil design on the paper before him. It is maddening, but there is no penetrating this kind of defense. Attlee in his cool ivory tower quietly sorts out the pros & cons and comes to a decision...
...Lake Placid was able to hold its jumping competition yesterday, which had been delayed due to lack of snow...
...placid audience just couldn't take it. As Dimitri Mitropoulos flailed the orchestra through the first movement, sharp, hard and dissonant, they got up and walked out. The survivors were rewarded. The slow movement was just as uncompromising, but more elegiac, occasionally reminding them of melody. The final movement, like the first, was a rouser...
...great mathematician, accuse him of sensationalism. Wiener's admirers reply that such bickering is only to be expected in a field as lively as cybernetics. Peace does not reign in a science, they say, until its peaks and valleys have worn to a featureless peneplain grazed by placid ruminants...