Word: placidness
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...Pfister Hotel suite, Kennedy slumped in a chair watching television; Brother Bob hovered anxiously over a telephone, jotting down the reports of local legmen. Then, slowly, the numbers began to change, and by 11 p.m. Kennedy was out in front. At that point, only one thing was certain: placid Wisconsin had been so churned by the campaign that an unprecedented 1,192,398 citizens had gone to the polls in a primary where voters can freely cross party lines. And that, too, added to the uncertainty...
...madrigals by a dozen all-but-forgotten composers of the 16th century. The names include Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Costanzo Porta and Gioseppe Caimo, and the themes have to do with the hazards of love. The music, performed by seven singers with occasional guitar and harpsichord accompaniment, has wit moments of placid beauty, and a colorfully antique...
...made by Houston's Dr. John Kinross-Wright on state prisoners at Huntsville, Texas. Patients treated there, he reported, were "classical psychopathic personalities with lifelong histories of antisocial behavior." In the penitentiary they were mutilating themselves, setting fires and starting fights. On Librium most of them became "placid and alert, despite their tension-provoking environment...
Left out of the Olympics because not enough nations showed interest in their hell-bent sport, Monti and his fellow bobsledders gathered at Lake Placid, N.Y. to show what they could do. (Lake Placid's run is a vestige of the 1932 Winter Olympics, and the only run in North America.) As the new boy on the course, Monti dutifully made two trial runs from the halfway mark before the officials would turn him loose. Scorning the U.S.-style steering wheel, he handled the steering ropes with the sensitive, iron hands of a jockey, hit speeds close...
...governing. The two brothers last week sat silently together on the embankment of the serpentine Mekong River, their chins resting on their canes, awaiting the fiery sunset. Finally the younger brother spoke: "I wish fervently that the future may give us peace, that we can always remain a placid people." The older brother nodded and continued to watch in silence as the sun slowly sank below the jungle horizon...