Word: placidness
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Lately, tempers have been soothed as residents have become used to the park idea. "The plan is more restrictive than it needs to be," says Lake Placid Realtor John Wilkins. "But basically it is a good plan." Because of it, the largest remaining area of scenic wilderness east of the Mississippi has now been sensibly preserved and protected...
Rosalie remembers the eyes which seemed to hurl accusations at the world, and she remembers that her mother and her mother's peg-legged friend also watched the execution with a darting glare. The girl realizes that seemingly placid slaves have made the bearing of their lives into an outcry. When Bayangumay flees the plantation, Rosalie lapses into madness--an epileptic state in which the slave-child first takes for herself the name of Solitude. She survives a pair of doting masters, the initial freedoms gained by the French Revolution, the forced-labor corvees which are then resumed...
Life is still clearly surging through her. She has no plans to retire. In July, Graham and her company will go to Lake Placid, N.Y., where she will preside over a theater workshop. While there, she will choreograph another new work, oversee three more revivals and also tape her reminiscences for a future autobiography...
...late last November, several truckloads of tough, blackbooted militiamen roared into the streets of Zakopane, a normally placid town of 30,000 in the heart of Poland's Tatra mountain-resort country. Using dogs to keep the townspeople at bay, and snatching film from anyone who tried to take pictures, the men led a procession of bulldozers and demolition workers through the town. Within a matter of hours, the wrecking crews had reduced six spanking new houses to rubble. The owners were arrested and forced to pay fines of up to $1,364. The offense: building without a permit...
...part, the vote was a populist revolt against Norway's and Europe's Establishment; in part it reflected a provincial fear that joining the Market would cost Norway its placid way of life along with some of its political sovereignty. Farmers were upset because membership in the EEC would require the government to abandon the subsidies that keep Norway's agriculture alive, especially in its hostile northern reaches; fishermen feared competition in their inshore waters from strong British and West German fleets; and environmentalists were concerned that EEC development policies would destroy Norway's natural beauty...