Word: relaxedness
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For the fifth -- and by no means final -- time last week, the Gorbachev schedule was changed to keep as much distance as possible between the guest and the million Chinese cheering his policies of openness and democratization. When the relaxed and smiling Soviet leader finally made his appearance at 7...
Benno Schmidt isn't tense. He can pitifully attempt to compensate for his incompetence as an administrator by screaming anti-Harvard slurs in a greasy pizza place renowned for selling alcohol to minors. As a consequence, Yale isn't tense. Just ask my friend David at Yale, who is quite...
I blame Bobby McFerrin for his stupid song that everyone quotes when telling me to be less tense. I'm worrying; I'm not happy; thank you very much. I blame post-thesis seniors who try to out-do one another explaining how relaxed they are. And I blame my...
To see what is peculiar to American Samoa, one need travel only 40 miles across the waters to Western Samoa, a relatively forgotten independent island that has four times as many people as its American namesake, but no congressional support. In Western Samoa, people speak English in the gentle, sea...
Louis Auchincloss, discreet attorney to the well-to-do and subtle novelist of their mores, proposes that the period between 1880 and 1910 could be called the Vanderbilt Era, after its largest and wealthiest clan. In these portraits in miniature of family members -- plus outriders like Richard Morris Hunt, who...