Word: placidness
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...smoothly joined and brightly told study of middle-aged delusional jealousy. Henry Bishop yearned for the days when people gently chased butterflies with nets; by contrast, he found modern life crude and vulgar. Until Diver's appearance, his 20 years of marriage with Madge had been plain, placid and passionless. Diver was all energy and heartiness. To Madge's amusement, he thrust trick gadgets at Henry-a golden dog whose eyes lit up, a dinner plate that leaped up convulsively...
...placid Queen Anne got tired of bouncing in a carriage over Britain's heaths watching the gentlemen of her court chase deer. She established the Ascot racecourse so that she could sit in one place and watch the gentlemen race their horses around. In the 238 years since then (right up into last week), interesting occurrences have taken place at Ascot...
...challenger for his championship, a lanky Negro lad named Andy Stanfield, from Seton Hall College (N.J.). The night before the N.C.A.A. championships, Patton's wife artfully kept his mind off the race. He didn't begin to work himself into a state-in which his placid disposition turns sour and he fails to recognize his best friends-until just before he set out for Los Angeles' Olympic Coliseum last week...
Collateral. Resort put out such tours as a $91.25 eight-day all-expense trip (New York to Lake Placid), and $785 for a 16-day tour through the West. Soon Resort was flying to Canada, the West Indies and Central America under temporary permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
Novelist Miller thought that the trouble might be her placid style. She decided to take a completely new course. She picked herself the pseudonym of Isabel Bolton and, in 1946, published a novel in a new, free style, Do I Wake or Sleep. It consisted pretty much of the interior monologues of a woman of intuitions, like Isabel Bolton. This time, the critics were watching. The New Yorker's Edmund Wilson found the Bolton style "exquisitely perfect in accent"; some of it he compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana...