Word: tranquillizing
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...article on Angola by Peter Shapiro, published in your September 18 issue strikes me as being a disconnected piece. The first part describes what are obviously his personal impressions of Angola. He rightly states that "there is no atmosphere of war instead there is a feeling of confidence. The tranquil atmosphere extends far beyond the capital...whites and wealthy blacks travel freely, moving throughout the countryside unarmed." This is what he saw and reported. The second part contain no original arguments rather it merely reproduces the usual accusations made against Portugal which can be found in the literature published...
...This tranquil atmosphere of confidence extends far beyond the capital Only a few troop carriers are seen today on the streets of Carmona, the center of the thriving North Angolan coffee industry and a prime locus of guerrilla activity since 1961 when the rebellion broke out only a few miles away...
...Florence's national library. But a problem remained: how to integrate this masterpiece of obsolete military building with the tourist life of the city below? The answer was to turn it into an exhibition center. The fortress's ancient terraces, overlooking Florence to the north and the tranquil, cypress-dotted hills behind San Miniato to the south, were potentially a superb site for the open-air installation of large-scale sculpture-provided that a sculptor could be found whose work could confront, and survive, the austere monumentality of the building itself. To Florence's civic leaders, there...
...This tranquil resignation is strongly contrasted with the harried, impatient, worrisome lives of their children and grand-children. One son's profession as neighborhood doctor forces him to neglect his family, the Tokyo daughter is so stingy that she begrudges her parents every bite they eat, while a total lack of traditional calm surfaces in the grandson who throws temper-tantrums whenever he is crossed...
...town's local magistrate is a woman, and so are its health-services chief, its notary public, its postmaster, the heads of its two power and light districts and its two school districts. Police Chief Maurício de Freitas, who concedes that his job is frankly "tranquil," is the town's only male official of any importance. As for Mrs. de Almeida, her troubles are the same as any mayor's. "We need to build more roads, more public parks and more schools," she says. "My two biggest enemies are time and lack of money...