Word: placidness
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Although the clerical workers committee will probably not get past the organizing stage for a while, Harvard's labor relations will hardly be placid this fall. Two of Harvard's union contracts expire in November and December, and negotiations on both will begin late this month. Butler says he expects settlements with the 600-member Harvard University Employees Representative Association and the 340-member Metropolitan Boston and Vicinity Craft Maintenance Council, but the University and the unions are still likely to sit down at the bargaining table with substantially different ideas about wages...
...Hillbilly South, the Old South, the Racist South, the Devout South--the point is, a writer who fails to make the South seem strange and different has not accomplished what he was supposed to do, just like a writer who has not presented the midwest as normal and placid...
...that, some Australians who were initially attracted by Whitlam's energy and decisiveness were worried that he is now doing too much too fast and that he had basically misinterpreted the conservative, traditional temperament of his countrymen. Whoever wins, Australian politics will never again be so simple and placid as it has been for most of the past generation...
During this period, Faculty meetings became more frequent and well-attended than they had been for years. Back in the placid fifties, the Faculty always met in the relatively cozy Faculty room in University Hall and sometimes had as few as three or four meetings a year. In early 1969, the meetings were often held once a week or, just after the Strike, almost every day--and the Faculty usually could no longer fit into University Hall. By the spring of 1969, they were meeting in the Loeb Drama Center...
...bourbon was imminent. The author's domestic life was a Faulknerian blend of the Gothic and the genteel. In 1918, his childhood sweetheart Estelle Oldham wed someone else. Faulkner waited. After ten years her marriage broke up, and Faulkner proposed. Their lifelong union was outwardly placid, Faulkner the proper country squire, Estelle his lady. But their mutual drinking produced nightmarish battles as dramatic though less destructive than those between Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...