Word: cool
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...dynamic figure, well-liked by his students, Brewster is known for being cool in crises-and it is not unreasonable to assume that Harvard's next 20 years will have plenty...
Noble Profession. One reason for the upset was that Bumpers came across as a cool, rational and intensely sincere candidate whose natural style contrasted sharply with the contrived, emotional preachings of Faubus. Articulate, handsome and husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), Bumpers, 45, laughed readily, shunned speech texts, spoke quietly and candidly of the need for prison reform, better roads, higher teacher salaries, more vocational training and better programs for the poor. He countered Faubus' attempts to stir racial fears by saying that he too was against busing to achieve racial balance in schools. Yet when he was a school...
...while they bombarded their white superiors with petitions complaining about inequities, real and fancied; now, believing that their grievances are ignored, they have largely stopped. Black noncoms, especially career soldiers who tend to side with the Army, cool the agitators as much as they...
...Plimpton's delight, the current college generation finds him a particularly sympathetic figure. He is in the Establishment, yet out of it; he has dipped into a dozen different fields, yet is tied to none. He possesses both passionate interest and a kind of cool grace. "He is their ultimate vision of the writer," says Polish-born Novelist Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird), one of George's countless literary friends. "To them he comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be-that he should not just live off the imagination, like Proust...
...Singer's view, absurdity, chaos, the irrational, all the fashionable preoccupations of contemporary life, are at best apocrypha, not canon. In a world of prose experiment and cool media, Singer, virtually alone, works in the metaphysical tradition. Behind him are the contiguous works of Kafka, Chekhov -and Gogol, with whom the reader of A Friend of Kafka must agree: "Say what you like, but such things do happen -not often, but they do happen." These 21 miraculous creations are, in the highest artistic tradition, true stories. · Stefan Kanfer