Word: tranquility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nine years ago," he writes, "I was sitting in my house in the Grunewald in Berlin. I had my books around me. . . . I was content. I had not the remotest idea of ever moving from that house. Six years ago I was sitting in my tranquil, white-stuccoed house in Sanary, in the south of France. I had my books around me. ... I was content. I had not the remotest idea of ever moving from that house...
President Conant, who shared speaking honors with President Baxter, compared the tranquil scene at Adams's informal dinner with a similar dinner at Trinity College, in Cambridge, England. There the banquet was practically disrupted by an air-raid alarm, but the intrepid students remained in their places until the "immediate danger" signal should come-which it never...
...generation which Fitzgerald celebrated managed to prolong its mental childhood to the age of 21. Really violent adolescence set in at 25. By 30 the physical survivors flickered into a relatively tranquil senescence. But they had been deeply seared by a blinding flash of revelation that life is at bottom brutal, and most of them clung to their cushioning cynicism years after the psychic shock had passed. They had to. Cynicism was the lost generation's only morale...
...never be fired." She has lived through three books, Trending into Maine, March to Quebec and Wiswell, has also (at Gourmet Roberts' suggestion) written one of her own -a recipe book called Good Maine Food. Third member of the Roberts household is small, wellread, tranquil Mrs. Roberts, who used to do the secretarial work Niece Mosser does...
...they wandered over the sunny terrace and tranquil lawns of the Westchester Country Club at Rye, N. Y. last week, 200 members of the American Neurological Association talked more of the world's madness than of their brainsick patients. Some older men recalled apprentice days in World War I, which provided cracked skulls and shattered brains from which the modern science of neurosurgery was learned. Almost all of them soberly discussed the chances of trying their skill on a mass scale once again...