Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only the second movement, dominated by the calm theme that Brahms vowed he would include in his ninth symphony, achieved any degree of balance or emotion, and even then it was not Mr. Schenck's doing: the orchestra's principal oboist, Eliott Noyes, and its principal cellist, Clarke Slater, (both of whom received their musical training at Vermont's Putney School) were chiefly responsible for this transient success...
...conducted in the shadow of the gallows. Hardly any of the candidates mentioned it, but everyone recalled the execution of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and two members of his government by General Gursel's military junta. Despite occasional arrests in the campaign weeks, the voting itself was calm and clean. Result: a sharp rebuff to the junta and the 17-month-old revolution...
During most of the evening, Wagner's calm, slightly amused manner appeared to good advantage. But Lower East Sider Lefkowitz evened the score with a closing speech that approached eloquence. "Give me a chance," he cried. "I love this town. I love this city. I love every borough in it. I want a chance to prove to people that no matter how big the city is, no matter how complex its problems are, I'll find the necessary talent, men and women to do a job. This could be done. You can't do things by letting...
Roared Nikita: "Who can remain calm and indifferent to such provocative statements made in the United States Senate by this woman, blinded by savage hatred toward the community of Socialist countries?" Shrilly, Nikita went on, "It is hard to believe how a woman, if she is not the devil in disguise, can make such a malicious man-hating appeal. She should understand that in the fire of nuclear war millions of people would perish, including her own children, if she has any. Even the wildest of animals, a tigress even, worries about her cubs, licks and pities them...
Though tanks still peered through the shrubbery in downtown Damascus, Syria was calm. After Gamal Abdel Nasser had resigned himself to Syria's breakaway from the United Arab Republic ("May Allah help beloved Syria"), the world's nations hastened to welcome the newly independent state. In a blaze of flashbulbs and official smiles, U.S. Consul General Ridgway B. Knight drove up to the rose-walled Foreign Office in Damascus last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This...