Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the eastern shore of Hong Kong last week the waves rolled in with a tragic flotsam: the bodies of 32 refugees from Red China whose overloaded sampan swamped and sank in mirror-calm seas. They were grim evidence of the desperate craving of thousands of Chinese to make their way from the shackled mainland to the glitter of prosperous Hong Kong, whatever the dangers...
Turmoil & Calm. The Barbizon artist most misunderstood in later years was Jean François Millet, whose studies of peasants, notably The Angelus and The Man with a Hoe, splashed him with a reputation for sentimentality. Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French peasant "jolly," and today, seen afresh, the paintings justify his protests. He painted his peasants with brooding compassion, saw in them "true humanity, the great poetry," but the mood is somber rather than sentimental. They bend to their labors patiently but also hopelessly, condemned to struggle against stubborn nature...
Though 16 years younger than Corot, Theodore Rousseau was in his lifetime the dominant figure in the school. He was obsessed by the moods of nature, from the wild turmoil of storms to the glassy calm of scenes like his Farm on the Banks of the Oise. To those who have dismissed the Barbizon painters as little more than copyists of nature, Rousseau gave an arresting reply. To paint from nature, he said, was not to copy it but to converse with it, to paint objects in terms of "the echoes they have placed in our souls." He had "heard...
...meters clicked dizzily. "This is going to do it," said Fermi, working his slide rule. Recalls Weil: "I had to watch Fermi every second, waiting for orders. His face was motionless. His eyes darted from one dial to another. His expression was so calm it was hard. But suddenly his whole face broke into a broad smile." "The reaction is self-sustaining." Fermi announced. "The curve is exponential." Instead of leveling off, the rate of radiation was continuing to accelerate-a chain reaction was under way inside the pile...
Furthermore, if I should have referred to a view of the "white liberal," it would be that some White Americans seem to claim a monopoly of the definition of liberalism as applied to the Negro's situation. To an increasing number of young Negroes, this calm is no longer acceptable. Their rejection of it, however, does not necessarily imply a black racist position. But that it should appear to do so--and in some instances may in fact become racist--is, I think, an inevitable part of the confusion and difficulties that we must expect to accompany greater efforts...