Word: placidness
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...Your article concerning senility [Aug. 4] describes the sufferers as "illogical," "subject to mental depressions," bothered by weakened memories, "sloppy." "inattentive to details once cared about," "insensitive to the feelings of others and oversensitive to their own," "previously belligerent" but currently "pathetically sweet and placid," and "at times . . . completely cut off from reality." You have identified the malady afflicting those in contemporary "hippiedom." They are suffering from senility...
...country's 38,000 miles of roadway is ordinarily undrivable. Its waterways, which are more important than the land routes, trace a hazardous course among 7,000 islands ranging from Luzon in the typhoon-tossed north to Mindanao, 1,100 miles to the south where the seas are placid-except for roving Moro pirates...
...quite a contrast to his previous placid life in Peking. "We used to feel personally more secure there than anywhere else in the world," he says. "We could send our children out on the streets. We could leave our homes and cars open, and nothing would be stolen. This violence was a terrible change...
IVES: PIANO SONATA NO. I (1902-1910) (RCA Victor). Charles Ives was such a rebel that his music bears little resemblance to the placid mainstream of turn-of-the-century American sounds. Yet, as demonstrated in this intriguing recording of his First Piano Sonata, he is no composer to snoot. The work is raw, unpolished, sometimes uproariously funny; its New World vigor and intelligence cannot help being appealing. Pianist William Masselos imparts the work's spirit with appropriate improvisational candor...
...pretty. In March, 1966, the DPW first selected the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Cambridge section of the highway an sent the recommendation to Washington for federal approval. Volpe suspended the decision in October while campaigning hard for reelection. From Volpe's perspective, the campaign was placid. The polls showed him far ahead, and his opponent had yet to find vulnerable spots in the governor's record. But the Inner Belt issue was potentially disruptive. Opponents of the Belt looked menancing; they were threatening to make the highway a volatile election issue. Thus, after meeting with leaders...