Word: placid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis of Confidence. From the hard, gritty North Sea ports to the lush Bavarian mountains, from Germany's iron heart in the Ruhr to the placid university towns which cherish their professors and their poets, the land ruled by Konrad Adenauer still bears the brutal stamp of total defeat. It also bears the pale, pinched look of poverty. The free-enterprise economic policies, put to work under military government, have led West Germany's 46 million hard-working people from near-starvation a long way toward recovery. But the country's economy is still far from healthy...
...Buddhism, Dr. Ekholm believes that the lotus design may have been brought to Yucatan by a Buddhist missionary. He shows a carving from India of the Buddha seated in a lotus flower. Beside it he shows another stylized lotus flower from Yucatan. In the center, instead of the placid Buddha, is a fierce Mayan...
...newest of three Negro regulars now on the Dodger roster, Newcombe is also the hardest of the three to handle. On the road, Catcher Roy Campanella and Second-Baseman Jackie Robinson take turns sharing the big, moody rookie as a roomie. When he is his normal, placid, taciturn self, they needle him up to ballfield pitch. They soothe him when he gets upset and threatens to get out of line...
...smoothly joined and brightly told study of middle-aged delusional jealousy. Henry Bishop yearned for the days when people gently chased butterflies with nets; by contrast, he found modern life crude and vulgar. Until Diver's appearance, his 20 years of marriage with Madge had been plain, placid and passionless. Diver was all energy and heartiness. To Madge's amusement, he thrust trick gadgets at Henry-a golden dog whose eyes lit up, a dinner plate that leaped up convulsively...
...challenger for his championship, a lanky Negro lad named Andy Stanfield, from Seton Hall College (N.J.). The night before the N.C.A.A. championships, Patton's wife artfully kept his mind off the race. He didn't begin to work himself into a state-in which his placid disposition turns sour and he fails to recognize his best friends-until just before he set out for Los Angeles' Olympic Coliseum last week...