Word: tranquilizing
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Nationalist China had once counted on the machinery and production of a tranquil Manchuria to speed Chinese recovery by months, if not years. There was almost nothing left of that vision. It would be enough now simply to hold...
...Tranquil with an If. President Painter didn't fire Dobie, but he did bat an eye. After his first year in office, he reported that everything was now tranquil on the campus, and that he would not tolerate "any further attempts on the part of individuals within our staff ... to besmirch the good reputation of the university." Dobie decided that that meant him. In the weekly Texas Spectator, he called Painter "a flunky of the Laval pattern...
...Gothic transept, Sculptor Henry Moore's outsize figure of the Madonna & Child sat tranquil and serene. At the other hung Painter Graham Sutherland's agonized Christ on the Cross, bearing the sins and degradation of the world. Between them, in the center aisle, stood full-throated Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, singing Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner. The audience, warned not to applaud in the church, sat in pent-up enthusiasm which mounted from song to song, until at last, when Flagstad made her final bow, some 20 of her listeners jumped to their feet and silently bowed...
...orchestra sitting down. France's No. 1 composer, chunky little Darius Milhaud, climbed carefully into a chair raised a foot above the stage of Boston's Symphony Hall. From the chair he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra through the first performance of his Symphony No. 2. During tranquil passages he waved his arms gently, as if they would waft him into the air like a weightless blimp. When the music was loud he slid from his chair and stood threateningly on tiptoe...
This religious and esthetic achievement of Negro Americans has found profound expression in Marian Anderson. She is not only the world's greatest contralto and one of the very great voices of all time, she is also a dedicated character, devoutly simple, calm, religious. Manifest in the tranquil architecture of her face is her constant submission to the "Spirit, that dost prefer before all temples the upright heart and pure...