Word: placide
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...often true in the Persian Gulf, the seas were placid, and the sailors standing watch aboard the U.S.S. Stark could see an endless display of stars in the clear evening sky. The sleek vessel, 445 ft. long and 45 ft. at the beam, slipped quietly through the water at a mere four knots. Under the subdued lights of the combat information center inside the warship's superstructure, sonar operators watched their blue-green screens and listened with headphones for the pinging sounds that would indicate the presence of underwater mines...
Until the gold strike three years ago, the Salesians' placid principality resembled the 18th century Jesuit compounds in Paraguay that are celebrated in the film The Mission. The Indians' spiritual traditions provided a foundation for the Salesian priests and nuns who supplanted the tribal shamans. The Salesians stressed education and introduced infirmaries, orchards and craft workshops. The Indians became heavily dependent upon the mission, which bartered or bought handicrafts and art, resold them to outsiders and used most of the proceeds to maintain the church's services...
...people. The regular Friday prayers in Tehran can draw as many as half a million faithful. There is no hint of war, however, in Tehran's northern district. This is where bazaaris, members of Iran's business class, and other people of influence reside, in walled villas along placid, tree- lined streets. Women wear the regulation chador during the day but then reappear in the evening in smart outfits from Paris to drink Scotch and reminisce about visits to Europe. "We have two personalities," explains one woman. But when the casual talk subsides, their businessmen-husbands complain about endless problems...
...Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 5,361,000 members strong, was born + last week in Columbus at a placid "constituting convention." The ELCA, an amalgamation of three Lutheran churches, will establish its headquarters close to Chicago's O'Hare Airport by January. Before then, some congregations that find the ELCA too liberal plan to break away. (The conservative Missouri Synod and Wisconsin Synod remain outside the merger...
...manages only to stick small pins in some very easy targets; it is a series of in-jokes about the theater that amounts to just a series of in-jokes about the theater. The heavyhanded production does not help; only Elizabeth Franz manages to find the right kind of placid earnestness for Durang's language. For this, Mrs. Sorken at least deserves praise: I only wish she had more to present. The best way for Durang to improve the current state of theater is to write more plays as good as those we have already seen from him; he should...