Word: placidness
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...placid audience just couldn't take it. As Dimitri Mitropoulos flailed the orchestra through the first movement, sharp, hard and dissonant, they got up and walked out. The survivors were rewarded. The slow movement was just as uncompromising, but more elegiac, occasionally reminding them of melody. The final movement, like the first, was a rouser...
Williams writes with a soldier's knowledge of tactics, troop movements and logistics. He also writes less like a historian than a staff officer setting down a combat analysis. The result is no placid study, but a creative rethinking of whole campaigns...
Crisis of Confidence. From the hard, gritty North Sea ports to the lush Bavarian mountains, from Germany's iron heart in the Ruhr to the placid university towns which cherish their professors and their poets, the land ruled by Konrad Adenauer still bears the brutal stamp of total defeat. It also bears the pale, pinched look of poverty. The free-enterprise economic policies, put to work under military government, have led West Germany's 46 million hard-working people from near-starvation a long way toward recovery. But the country's economy is still far from healthy...
...Buddhism, Dr. Ekholm believes that the lotus design may have been brought to Yucatan by a Buddhist missionary. He shows a carving from India of the Buddha seated in a lotus flower. Beside it he shows another stylized lotus flower from Yucatan. In the center, instead of the placid Buddha, is a fierce Mayan...
...newest of three Negro regulars now on the Dodger roster, Newcombe is also the hardest of the three to handle. On the road, Catcher Roy Campanella and Second-Baseman Jackie Robinson take turns sharing the big, moody rookie as a roomie. When he is his normal, placid, taciturn self, they needle him up to ballfield pitch. They soothe him when he gets upset and threatens to get out of line...