Word: placidness
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...fighting, though, has been hard to see. On the surface, it's been a placid campaign, free of most of the charges and rumors that have marked other autumns. But--in part because the race seems more wide open than usual--this year has seen infighting among ideological lookalikes, and sharp divisions within once-cozy coalitions...
...stay-at-home who cooks and keeps house and, in moments of stress, plays Susan Alexander to Frank's Citizen Kane. Bernd can't accept that Frank is voracious for sexual experience with any consenting adult male; Frank feels restricted by Bernd's desire for a placid sex life and regular mealtimes. A blowup is inevitable. Coming home from a drag ball, they have one last fight. Frank strides into his classroom dressed as an Indian princess, with earrings, headband, beads, bra and tattered sari. "Good morning, children," he says airily...
...workers had to spend a few days rectifying the error with black crayon. And there was an unsigned leaflet attacking incumbent councilor David Sullivan in language safely described as strong. But not much more; considering the history of the city's political campaigns, it's been a placid fall. In fact, only one image really stands out: council candidate Wendy Abt, a stunned look on her face, fighting back tears after the Rent Control Task Force convention denied her its endorsement by an overwhelming vote. The non-endorsement may say quite a lot about where Cambridge politics is headed...
...land has grown out now, and the placid Concord is hidden. There are, however, lots of ferns, rotting logs, pine trees, deciduous trees, and horse-leavings. Once I emerged from the woods to find a familiar red-and-white shuttle bus at the entrance, bearing Biology students out for a serious day's work. But the Forest is big enough to swallow up any crowd; certainly it is among the most peaceable corners of this University...
...told my parents, and they decided that one way or another they would get me there." With the help of an uncle who was a doctor, Kelleher was able to enter the school in the fall of 1935. The atmosphere was still pleasant, but somehow it wasn't as placid as he remembered: his visit, it turned out, had fallen on the weekend that all of the college was in New Haven for the Yale game...