Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson and Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower had gone to Europe before him, President Kennedy went to Paris and Vienna with the express diplomatic purpose of winning friends and influencing enemies. In his luck-starred political career, John Kennedy had often handled that sort of challenge with smooth, winning assurance?but never before had he faced such a difficult friend as France's Charles de Gaulle, or such an unpredict able enemy as the Soviet Union's Khrushchev. As he carefully told the country beforehand, Kennedy's European rendezvous with history were not intended for strategic decision or diplomatic agreement. Instead...
Smith helped smooth the integration of Nashville's public schools, which had got off to a rock-throwing, bomb-hurling start. Today, some 180 Negro students attend nine formerly all-white schools, and the number increases-almost unnoticed-each year. Again, last year, when Nashville's lunch-counter sit-ins caused violence, it was Smith who led Negro negotiations with white merchants. He had a powerful lever. Says a department-store official of the lunch-counter settlement that resulted: "Sure, our lunch-counter business has dropped slightly from what it used to be. But it's nothing...
...patterns of a tribe at once polygamous and polyandrous. Among the wholly amoral cast of characters: Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an elegant but asthmatic London wine merchant, who is also the novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint analyst, Anderson Palmer, a smooth, prosperous Freudian who, despite a "big white American smile," is also something of a warlock and misleads both women from couch to bed; Palmer's sister, Dr. Honor Klein, a notable witch and anthropologist given to fingering a samurai sword while talking of herself as a severed head...
...Eighth Day. Eight miles from Dr. Yadin's Cave of Letters in the Wilderness of Judah, the second archaeological team, headed by grey-haired Polish Emigré Pessah Bar-Adon, 53, dug through six feet of debris in another cave. On the eighth day, behind a smooth stone that blocked a wall niche, it discovered a collection of artifacts that Bar-Adon quietly described as "probably archaeologically sensational": 432 copper, bronze, ivory and stone decorated objects that seem to be mace heads, scepters, crowns, powder horns, tools and weapons. Ranging in size from...
...scarcely changed: it is still Cassandra's, ominous and unheeded. Writes Mumford in The City in History: "Another century of such 'progress' may work irreparable damage upon the human race. Instead of deliberately creating an environment more effective than the ancient city, . . . our present methods would smooth out differences and reduce potentialities, to create a state of mindless unconsciousness . The polite name for this creature is 'man-in-space,' but the correct phrase is 'man out of his mind...