Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against Death." Only a few days before, Hermann Goring had jested: "I have got the best sentence of all." But last week, his calm broke when he sobbingly surrendered pictures of his wife and daughter to his attorney. A prison psychologist reported that Goring dreamed of "secret revenge on the Allies...
Leahy's calm abolition of the Rockne shift amounted to heresy at Notre Dame. But one father, plain-talking Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, now Notre Dame's president, came to his aid: "A man is a real success when he knows what God wants him to do and has the discipline to do it." As a T quarterback, Angelo Bertelli was a sensation...
...calm the war-weary Russian people's own jittery nerves...
...show, announcers telephone a housewife, offer $5 if she can answer a question in one minute. If she fails, another $5 is added, another number is called. Brooklyn listeners telephone the library as soon as they hear the question, hoping their number may be next. The library's calm is shattered during every broadcast. Concluded Dr. Ferguson stiffly: "The identification of 'Lemonade Lucy'* or the architect of the White House . . . seems of small moment...
Author Jackson has a plausible clinical grasp of the excruciating predicament of these people, and he prepares his revelation with conscientious care. But the book is not remotely comparable to Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, a calm, classic, immensely artful treatment of a similar theme...