Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Gogh, who is in Cambridge for a short visit and a talk on his uncle at the Fogg Museum, is a calm, white-haired gentleman who possesses the ease and charm that one associates with his father, Theo, Vincent's brother and truest friend. Since both brothers died before Mr. Van Gogh was two, he speaks of them with not only family pride, but also with appropriate scholarly detachment...
...took all Debre's persuasiveness to calm the Chancellor down. What De Gaulle meant, he argued, was that he did not want to start a war and was asking for a French veto to be sure no one else did. If the West was attacked, naturally there would not be time to invoke a veto, and De Gaulle was not asking for such a privilege...
While the world's statesmen hotly debated its fate in the U.N., the Congo sprawled in the equator's heat, torpid and listless. The riotous chaos and killing had mostly stopped. In its place was a vapid, restless calm...
PITCHING. The Pirates have the requisite pair of strong men to start as many as five of the possible seven games: Mormon Elder Vernon Law (20-9), who has glacial calm and a fast slider...
...cinema craftsmanship, Sunrise, is conventional but careful, a superior commercial product. The settings are authentic-the exteriors were shot at Campobello, Hyde Park and Manhattan, and the interiors are exact reconstructions of the Roosevelt homes. The direction by Vincent J. Donehue, who also did the play, shows a calm good sense of pace and proportion. The acting in the minor roles is competent, and in three of the major ones it is, in one degree or another, magnificent. As Roosevelt's mother, Actress Shoemaker presents an image of horrible and yet somehow humorous fascination: the mother that only...