Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late at night, the mass meeting a warm memory, Martin Luther King Jr. can relax for a few moments before his prayers. He talks quietly of the broad principles on which his effort is based. "Our use of passive resistance in Montgomery," he says, "is not based on resistance to get rights for ourselves, but to achieve friendship with the men who are denying us our rights, and change them through friendship and a bond of Christian understanding before God." Impossible? Maybe...
...porcelain fragility. Felicia soon instilled some fireside virtues in her man. They have two children? Jamie, 5, and Alexander Serge (named for Koussevitzky). 19 months?and live in a nine-room duplex just cater-cornered from Carnegie Hall. But Lennie's fierce energy makes it hard for him to relax; when he plays with the children, reports Felicia, "he plays too hard, throws them too high, squeezes them too tight." For all his "settling down." Bernstein has not noticeably slowed his pace. He seems to feel that he is still living the overture. "We still sit up nights." says...
...time goes (ever so slowly) by, the rest of the cast seem to relax and act natural-like too. The hero (Fess Parker) gulps and cuts in on the heroine (Kathleen Crowley) at the hoedown. The braves at the war dance start truckin' on down to that red-hot ethnic music. And here they come! "Get 'em movin'," Hero Parker hollers-"Ah'll cover the r'ar!" The race to the pass begins...
...Relax press censorship, encourage banned newspapers to publish again. ¶Make an all-out effort to get the foreign commercial debt paid...
Rhythm & Drill. When little Mary MacIsaac first arrived, she had so little coordination that she could scarcely control her hands and feet. She was given breathing exercises to build up her respiration, massages and tiny electric shocks to relax her limbs. She listened to nursery tunes for hours each day, gradually learned to keep time with her fingers and to twirl her hands to the rhythm of Hickory, Dickory, Dock. As her ability to coordinate her body movements increased, she began to pronounce her first words. After that came years of phonetic drill and tongue exercises, but by the time...