Word: relaxedness
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DURING China's long years of isolation, her diplomats and officials raised inscrutability to an art, hardly ever wavering from the approved line of Maoist rhetoric and propaganda. Even in today's more relaxed and affable atmosphere, China's leaders seldom give outsiders any real insight into...
ON the surface, Attica has changed. A new superintendent, Ernest L. Montanye, a beefy former guard, is trying to make the prison an easier place to do time. The screens in the visiting room are gone, and visitors now include friends and common-law wives. Prison officials still read inmates...
Thus the relaxed weekend this summer that I spent in Cambridge was devoted to some systematic reworking of my desensitized state. The idea of conversation, not neurotic or guilt-ridden, but curious, honest, and friendly, appealed to me. When a follower of Krishna, siting serenely in Forbes Plaza, asked my...
The status-and income-of chess masters continue to soar. Up in Iceland, a relaxed and happy Bobby Fischer feasted on suckling pig, sipped a sinister-sounding potion called Viking's Blood, danced with a pretty blonde named Anna Thorsteinsdottir, and uncharacteristically arrived ten minutes early for a meeting...
During the hullabaloo that accompanied the Lady Chatterley obscenity trial in 1959, it was fashionable to say that the book was not dirty, just pretentious. But Lawrence was attempting "an adjustment in consciousness to the basic physical realities." A tall order that, and one that greatly appealed to the author...