Word: placidness
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WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). World professional figure-skating championship, from Lake Placid...
...again through its turbulent, long history, Christianity has heard the voice of its own angry prophets denouncing the established disorder-St. Paul complaining about the immoralities of Corinth, St. Francis rejecting the pomp of the medieval church, Luther fulminating at the luxury of Rome, Kierkegaard howling vainly against the placid orthodoxy of Denmark's Lutheranism. Time and again, also, Christianity has undergone revolutionary second Pentecosts, and survived by adopting radical new forms of life. The Christian cell of believers, worshiping in the catacombs, brought the church through centuries of Roman persecutions. In the Dark Ages of the 9th century...
...50th birthday of a serving lady is a closely observed phenomenon in the House dining room. To an optimist, it may presage the transformation of a tight-lipped grapefruit juice-flavored lady into a placid and friendly peanut butter sandwich...
Suddenly cursed with leisure, with her children away at school or looked after by servants, she sits idly thumbing the pages of Vogue. Her husband loses himself in enterprises inimical to home life, and amuses himself with bits of accessible fluff. One day, while shopping at Harrods, the placid wife collapses in a fit of hysterical sobbing. The doctor comes. "A beautiful woman," her husband growls, "but all she wants to do is sit in a corner and give birth." She submits to sterilization at her husband's urging, only to learn that he has got another woman with...
India itself, since attacked by Red China, has had to move closer to both Washington and Moscow. With belligerents like Indonesia and Cuba under the same roof with such placid pro-Western nations as Nigeria and Liberia, the very meaning of the term "nonaligned" is disappearing. As Tshombe remarked acidly, echoing Orwell: "It is curious how some of these states are more nonaligned than others...