Word: placidness
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...musical wanderings as Maurice, an orchestra leader "who was brought up on Pernod instead of mother's milk"; Boris, a violinist who "occasionally [ate] caviar with his right hand, playing a stunning pizzicato sequence with his left" Monsieur Arnould, a music director who had something "of the jovial, placid, dignity of the bull fiddle" he once played; Franzl, an amateur pianist whose reason for living was the hope that some day he might work on Wall Street (he owned six inches of genuine New York ticker tape...
...week Arthur Whitehouse and his big-eyed, ten-month-old daughter arrived in Philadelphia. On the 1,000-mile journey, Father Whitehouse had efficiently mixed and administered her formula. Geraldine Mary Whitehouse, the youngest passenger ever flown across the North Atlantic route by the Air Transport Command, exhibited a placid, healthy interest in her toes. Much less sure of himself, Father Whitehouse delayed seeing his wife, headed straight for his mother's three-room apartment. Startled, Mrs. Whitehouse Senior remarked "Well, I didn't expect this kind of Christmas present." Then she added...
This official robomb short includes some astutely quiet shots: of placid wheat, a blowing summer tree in the wasted city, children picking their way, with touching shyness, among freshly ruined homes. It also has some intensely exciting shots of the bombs in flight, fantastic as Buck Rogers and intimately sinister as a noise in the wall, a weirdly terrible expression and symbol of the enemy. And there is one tremendous moment when, in one of the most sensational scenes of the war, a V-1 is caught on the wing by a British plane, roars the screen full...
...there is the theme of Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. At the Sanctus and Benedictus ("Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord") are the melo dies of Goin' Home and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and at the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) the devout and placid music of Deep River...
...overcrowded sections and only equipped to the lower-drummer-trade standard, the Hotels Pershing and Theresa, the Army wishfully reasoned, would still be more restful to battle-weary Negroes than any of the 49 fancy hotels taken over for whites in resort centers like Miami, Santa Barbara, Lake Placid...