Word: placidness
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...force by an actress twice the age of the character she's portraying. Triumphing over the stereotype of the colored Earth Mother, Miss Waters is a Mammy with more than a hospitable lap. Her portrait of the cook, Bernice, is a rich, full personality with the compassion and placid wisdom of experience. These two performers make the film a moving drama. But at the same time, Member of the Wedding shows clearly that for all the versatility of the camera, something is lost when a screen-play is simply a play on the screen...
Sidney Foster skated in "Ice Chips," the annual production of the Skating Club of Boston. Later this month, she and her brother will enter the Easterm States figure skating championships at Lake Placid...
Thomas F. McGann, Instructor in History and tutor at Kirkland House, has a face which is hard to forget. His placid expression, underlined by a black mustache gives him the appearance of a benign dictator. Having spent several years in Argentina before and during Person's regime, McGann might give the impression that he would in the role to a T. Yet most of his friends know him as "Uncle Tom." Perhaps it's because he likes to run sessions like a high level cocktail party-often in a student's room-with the waft of sherry...
...year 405, Roman rule in Britain seemed as placid and secure as it had been 200 years before. True, the garrisons in the north had been withdrawn to Londinium (London) some years before, but then there had been no real enemies for them to fight. Also, the authority for Wales and most of the west country had been delegated to the barbarian federated kings, but they were loyal, even if they paid no taxes, and only small tribute...
...Maldives (pop. 90,000) had waited some 800 years for their republic, but the struggle for self-government had been as placid and uneventful as most of life on the islands. It came about largely because the islands' Sultans themselves got tired of ruling. Huddled together far from the world's highways, some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon, protected first by the Portuguese, then the Dutch and finally the British, the little Maldives long knew few of the blessings and none of the curses of civilization...