Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood's go-slow attitude is not mere stubbornness; there are many hurdles to leap, many jitters to calm before the movies and television can make beautiful pictures together. James C. Petrillo's A.F.M. forbids the televising of any major films-past or present-using union musicians. Result: only B pictures or antiques reach the telescreen. Another factor: cautious, fiercely competitive Hollywood moves slowly-as it did in taking up sound 21 years ago. The highest hurdle is the real, ever-present fear that the living room teleset will make a deep dent in the nation...
Peace promises which the political saint had exacted from Indian leaders through his fast (TIME, Jan. 26) had brought at least temporary calm. There were noisy demonstrations in New Delhi-but they were for peace. Moslems moved unmolested into some areas from which rioting had driven them. On the third day after his fast, though weak, the Mahatma disdained to be carried to his daily prayer meeting; he walked, unaided, on his spindly legs. His audience of about 1,000 strained to hear as he prayed for Hindu-Moslem unity. A booming thud interrupted him. A hundred yards away...
...first demonstrated only 15 years ago; curare, a South American arrow poison introduced four years ago, relaxes muscles, reduces the amount needed of any general anesthetic. Sodium pentothal (the "truth drug"), no more terrifying than a sleeping pill, is enough for some operations ; it may also be used to calm a frightened, fighting patient for the once-dreaded trip to the operating room...
...alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague on both your houses:" Harvard had followed a foolish and niggardly policy, but the alumni should have had better taste than to wash dirty linen in public. Let Harvard pay decent wages, let the too-easily-excited alumni calm down, and let's all forget about the affair. By taking this stand, was the CRIMSON playing a constructive role? I subsequently came to the conclusion that it definitely was not, I think it was a case where the dirty linen could only be cleaned by being washed in public...
...help to define what it was: it was not bombastic; there was no playing to the gallery, no wisecracking, no demolishing of an opponent by invective or ridicule. The displays of learning were soon exhausted-the delegates got tired of hearing about the ancient republics. The delegates were calm, and even when they rushed articles through, their decisions were deliberate. Nor was there much speculation by them on the awful fate that would overtake mankind if they failed...