Word: tranquillizers
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...Until now, Flower Drum Song has been nothing but the newest Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical-brisk, bright, opulently staged, professional. When Miyoshi Umeki glides onstage to star in her first Broadway show, her first four words capture the house. The warmth of her art works a kind of tranquil magic, and the whole theater relaxes...
...election of an above-the-battle general, Fuad Chehab, as President, it quickly broke out anew. Chehab's choice for Premier, a pro-Nasser rebel named Rashid Karami, had loaded his Cabinet with Nasserites. The precarious fifty-fifty balance of Christians and Moslems, which alone has kept Lebanon tranquil in the past, was broken again. This time it was the Christians who became the rebels...
...holy medals, even exchanging his white silk skull cap with some visitor who had brought one for the purpose. The New York Times's late Anne O'Hare McCormick described him thus: "He is straight, strong, taut as a watch spring, thin as a young tree, but tranquil and tranquilizing -a Gothic figure whose vestments fall about him in Gothic folds, whose long hands are raised in Gothic gestures, both stiff and graceful...
...part, we have always looks with a great deal of pride and admiration upon the days of spontaneous student uprisings, and it may be that this form of student protest will again come into vogue. The Yard has been all too tranquil in recent years, and one can only hope that a substitute outlet for the Council as a means of expressing academic criticism and middle class escapism will be found. As one solution, we have always favored anarchy at Harvard because it affords so many students the opportunity to take an active part in government...
...rest of the magazine is poetry, and of it I like Sandy Kaye's "Afternoon Thoughts in Delft" best. It is a simple and tranquil poem, the best kind, and Sandy Kaye's piece seems to have an uncommon fragility about it. A lady sits in a doorway of Vermeer's "Street in Delft," thinking of the quiet and the secure things she knows about her faded old home. The poem is the woman talking, and yet it is not the woman talking because her thought seems to transcend her feeling. Be sure to hunt up the print...