Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calm & Cunning. Judgments on Stalin varied astonishingly among those free to assess him-outsiders who saw him compatriots who broke with him. U.S. Businessman Donald Nelson, caught up in the heady transactions of Lend-Lease, found Stalin "a regular fellow, and a very friendly sort of fellow, in fact." "He is the most vindictive man on earth," said Leonid Serebriakov, who had known Stalin for years. "If he lives long enough, he will get every one of us who ever injured him in speech or action." Stalin purged Serebriakov, along with some millions of others, in 1937. Wrote starry-eyed...
Much or Little. In the committee room, where the main bout took place, there was an air of determined calm. Robert Gorham Davis, Smith College English professor and first witness at the open hearings, patiently repeated a personal history. He had joined the Communist Party in 1937 while teaching at Harvard; two years later, disillusioned by the Nazi-Soviet pact, he quit. Party members, he said, had tried to recruit faculty members, not to influence students. Now, in his opinion, "the influence of Communists is very slight" on the teaching profession. With some reluctance, the slim, spectacled teacher identified...
...Calm Comment. By week's end the testimony had echoed far beyond the committee room. At Smith College, President Benjamin F. Wright announced that Robert Davis' past was unimportant. He is anti-Communist now, said Wright, and a "valuable and highly respected member of the Smith College faculty." Temple's President Robert L. Johnson, new head of the Voice of America (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), suspended Philosopher Dunham because "you have deliberately created a doubt as to your loyalty status." And at Harvard, Provost Paul H. Buck said that Professor Furry's antics would "be given full...
...retire to the somnolent dignity of elder-statesmanship. As a private citizen jealous of his privacy, Alemán left the capital to live on his ranches in northern Mexico. An office was set up in his name in Mexico City, but it had the hushed calm of a mortuary. His real business affairs were apparently being conducted in seemly privacy by close associates whom he had raised to wealth and power. Except for an occasional speech, the ex-President dropped out of the news...
Arthur Godfrey told his radio listeners last month that if an atom bomb should be dropped on the U.S., the job of keeping Americans calm and well-informed would be handled by two men: Godfrey himself and Ed Murrow. He explained: "They chose us two because it's pretty tough for guys to imitate our voices. You'd know when you heard my voice or Ed Murrow's voice that these were two guys you could depend on, and nobody was giving you any applesauce, see? That's the reason...