Word: placid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backgrounds range from bomb-flattened Warsaw to fat and peaceful Stockholm, from English country houses to the ski slopes of Austria's Vorarlberg. The people are nearly as cosmopolitan as Author Zilliacus herself (she has Swedish, Polish, Finnish and American blood), and their luck is uniformly bad. Placid Maria is forced into marriage with a Russian count; lovely Lisa's husband dies in the war; reckless Clarissa gets pregnant by a social inferior; Polish Teresa lets her fiance go rather than subject him to Communism; headstrong Rosemary's lover already has a wife; Pianist Anne-Marie loses...
...parents or the Khaki-Campbells from whose genitals their DNA had been taken-or even a hybrid between the two. Their feathers are soft and pure white instead of rough and creamy white, as in Pekin ducks. Their necks are set at a different angle, and their temperaments are placid instead of scrappy. Jesuit Leroy reports: "I didn't sleep for nights after we discovered the changes. It is wonderful to be close to the workings of creation...
Lockwood was a four-event skier at Northwood School, Lake Placid, N.Y., and served in the Ski Troops during World War II. He also acted as troop instructor for a time. He is a graduate of Trinity College and did graduate work at Princeton...
Perhaps because the much assaulted U.S. ear is wearying of clamorous modern dissonances, audiences seem to be falling in love all over again with the more placid sonorities of the 18th century. That interest in turn has sent students burrowing through monastery attics, museums and castles in search of long-lost scores. One of the more esoteric recent finds has come from the Escolanía (music school) of Montserrat in Spain, where California-born Pianist Frederick Marvin unearthed a hoard of keyboard sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler, 18th century Spain's only great instrumental composer. Last week...
...placid Ohio River town of New Albany, Ind. (pop. 32,000) one day last week, a Methodist minister and an Indiana state policeman took time out to celebrate an anniversary: three years before, under the gentle, persistent prodding of the Rev. Robert W. Gingery, 37, burly, hard-boiled Sergeant Marvin Walts, 49, had given up the unequal struggle, and become a member of Gingery's Trinity Methodist Church. To honor the anniversary, Policeman Walts invited his minister to ride with him on a routine inspection of the countryside. Then, at 1:15 p.m., as they cruised along U.S. Highway...