Word: placidness
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...LAKE PLACID, N.Y. Playhouse. The characters in the four droll and sometimes touching playlets of Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running share a universal preoccupation, sex, as it is used in art, as it wanes in middle age, as it bemuses parents of adolescent children, and as a fading memory of the very...
From Tierra del Fuego to Hudson Bay, if the world's 3,000,000 surviving hunter-gatherers provide any clue, man's distant past probably was more placid and, in some ways, more rewarding than his present. In their hostile environment, the Kalahari Bushmen find enough to eat with less effort than most civilized peoples. Anthropologist Lee estimates that the Bushman's daily diet averages 2,140 calories and 93.1 grams (3.26 oz.) of protein-well in excess of the estimated daily allowance for people of their vigor and size (1,975 calories, 60 grams of protein...
Like the blacks, Mexican Americans, who are known as Chicanos, are a varied and diverse people. Only recently have they emerged from a stereotype: the lazy, placid peasant lost in a centuries-long siesta under a sombrero. Unlike the blacks, who were brought to the U.S. involuntarily, the Chicanos have flocked to the U.S. over the past 30 years, legally and illegally, in an attempt to escape the poverty...
...Democratic Society member, was hustled off the stage after describing the commencement as "an obscenity"; 150 students promptly walked out of the assembly. More surprising was the fact that such instances of revolt were relatively rare. Across the nation, the awarding of degrees to graduating seniors was surprisingly placid, sentimental and traditional. Dissent was spoken of by student valedictorians, and by their elders receiving honorary degrees. But there was also a sense of nostalgia and guarded anticipation of the future -shadowed by the presence of the war in Viet Nam. Following is a firsthand report on the commencement spirit...
...CCNY and by blacks elsewhere cast doubt on that assertion. Observe that the Afro demand was the only one that made a direct inroad on the power of Harvard's Faculty. Did Wellesley College in accepting 104 blacks for next year's freshman class of 500 expect a placid year of co-opting blacks and teaching them proper manners...