Word: tranquilization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first few days. The critics enjoyed it, too, but they wondered about the artist behind the dry little jokes. Wrote one critic: "His works have the flavor of ashes. Magritte has no fear, no hate, no love, no regrets, no hope: he is a tranquil man, an illustrator of metaphor, an exegete of domesticated mysteries...
...thinner than he used to be, Bucky Fuller today presents a kindly and tranquil aspect to the world. His build is stubby; from a thick neck there rises a handsomely shaped skull:his hair is well-implanted, white and crew-cropped; his light eyes swim hugely behind the thick trifocals a man must wear who is too farsighted to cope unaided with the close at hand. As he warms to a subject, an initial shyness disappears; his ideas pop up faster & faster, as interminably as bubbles from a test tube held in a hot blue flame. Two hours may pass...
...PLUMP young woman, strolling along the path in the sun, with a face of such tranquil, unreflecting enjoyment that she seemed like one of those drunks who, at the end of the party, do not even need to smile from their trance, stopped, gazed, gradually took in the scene and at last, with a look of such conscious wisdom that it seemed to say to itself "Ain't I a clever responsible person?", rescued the baby, carried it to the rug, and carefully, maternally laid it flat on its back...
Patriotism. ". . . I venture to suggest that . . . patriotism ... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime...
...terror. It was said that . . . from the temple of Juno there had rushed forth a form greater than the form of man; that the statue of the Divine Julius, which stands on an island in the Tiber, had turned from the West to the East on a calm and tranquil day ; that an ox had spoken aloud in Etruria . . . besides many other things, such as in barbarous ages are observed even during seasons of peace, but are heard of only in times of terror...