Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Halifax. Chamberlain picked Butler as Under Secretary. With the Foreign Secretary in the House of Lords, if was often Butler's job to defend policy in the Commons. While Churchill cried havoc from the back benches, Butler loyally defended Munich and Mussolini's Italy in his maddeningly tranquil voice, became famed for his equivocal replies to awkward questions. The exasperated and jittery Commons nicknamed him "Stonewall Butler," and Lloyd George called him "the artful dodger...
...regard music as I do food," says New Orleans Industrialist (chemicals) Edward B. Benjamin. "I relish different types at different times." Last year he decided that there was not enough "tranquil" music in the world, so he established a $1,000 Benjamin Award to encourage more of it. Music Lover Benjamin's specifications: compositions would have to be: I) for full orchestra, 2) of not more than ten minutes' duration, 3) tranquil. Benjamin's further explanation: "Hundreds of thousands of Americans bring work home at night. Tranquil music is the kind that can be listened...
...mild and smoothly flowing work, entitled Elegy, written by Violinist-Composer Clarence Cameron White, 73-year-old Manhattan Negro. White's approximate recipe for tranquillity: a light batter of equal parts of Brahms and Saint-Saëns, seasoned with a pinch of Ravel. The audience gave Elegy rather tranquil applause, but roused to give Composer White himself a hearty burst when he appeared to take...
...John Hay Whitney), divorced him, he married Romelle. After the war, they settled down in California and had three children. There were a few minor disturbances, such as the time Romelle went to the hospital after swallowing 15 seconal tablets, but, in general, life seemed to be tranquil indeed-for Roosevelts. A month ago Jimmy filed a separation suit against Romelle. Then, with an odd sense of political timing, he announced that he would run for Congress this year...
...self-portrait and the reverent, mystical Head of Christ. In other rooms, there was a breath-taking assemblage of masterpieces by Velasquez, Goya and El Greco (including his stark, disturbing View of Toledo*) that could not be equaled in any museum outside of Spain. Pieter Bruegel's ecstatically tranquil Harvesters dominated one room. Caravaggio's Musicians another. In the galleries devoted to modern painters. Pablo Picasso's peaceful Woman in White, recently acquired from the Museum of Modern Art, and Edouard Manet's great, sea-fresh Boating were standouts...