Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the country, less calm, was still asking questions ranging from technical details about the plot to the future of the De Gaulle regime itself...
Hypnotic Gas. A quiet, secretive, self-educated, 39-year-old intellectual who is calm and courteous on the set and an utter mystery to his friends, Resnais was born in Vannes, the son of a Breton pharmacist. He made his first motion picture, called Adventures of Fantomas, when he was 13, using 8-mm. film and proceeding on the lovely green theory that if he concentrated on closeups his child actors would look adult...
Astonishing Life. The reader may almost feel sorry that she has exchanged the mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute...
...least one person would surely be left to enjoy the malls, the trees and the new city hall. Wink's town character is an aging Negro known only as "Buffalo." Reaching for his wine bottle one morning last week, Buffalo was calm and confident about the onward march of urban renewal...
...breakfast suddenly found himself deprived of most of his army's officer corps. Only a fortnight ago, Tshombe vowed to fight "unto death" any U.N. interference in his province. After listening to the delegation's tough talk, Tshombe meekly went on the air to appeal for calm. "The government bows to the decisions of the U.N.,'' he said. Then he took to his bed with a "mild heart attack...