Word: placidness
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...tall heavy-set man with hazel eyes and a placid face gazed around the Law School Forum, casually ran his fingers through his curly brown hair, and began to talk. For 15 minutes he quipped about being president of the Washington Redskins and about being called "one of the fellows" by inmates of the Atlanta Penitentiary...
Seldom, if ever, in the dozen years since the U.S. Supreme Court's school-desegregation decree have white Southern racists resorted to such brutish mob violence as the terrorism that greeted school opening in Grenada, Miss., last week. A neat, small (pop. 12,000), outwardly placid county seat deep in Faulkner country, Grenada (pronounced Gren-ay-da) had been simmering with racial tension ever since the James Mer edith protest march trooped through town last June...
After 23 days, the second monkey was as placid and healthy as ever, but the decision maker died-of ulcers. The Morrises charitably refrain from pointing out the obvious moral, which is not that man's nearest neighbor is smart enough to get ulcers, but that the ape's nearest neighbor is dumb enough to inflict them...
...victory. Better perhaps would be a defeat and devaluation that might force the surgery of fundamental change. As the British know better than anyone else, somehow the way to a second Industrial Revolution must be found. The alternative is to sink slowly toward the status of Sweden-prosperous and placid perhaps, but hardly the England that...
...this film the message arrives in the very first scene. A funeral procession cuts its way through the streets of a small Spanish village with a huge, elaborately decorated altar in the middle of the procession. Rosi's camera, plays upon the decorations of the altar and the placid smile on a statue of the Virgin Mary and then tilts downward to the miserable peasant boys who must carry the altar on their shoulders. Throughout the film, trappings constantly give way to sordid details in this...