Keeping Cool in the Nuclear Heat

The practice of calmness, of immobility, of certainty and security, suddenly breaks down, Keynes wrote.

Now I know that the number one rule to being cool is to seem unfazed, to never admit that anything scares you or impresses you or excites you.

As long as moderates keep their heads, a new Netherlands may be born out of the terrible events of the past weeks.

Her humanity and compassion are coupled with an acute sense of the iron discipline required for effective governance. These are the reflexes of an impeccable stateswoman.

CANBERRA Perhaps it is going too far to say, as someone did after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill two years ago, that most Americans want a president who is cool, calm, and collected in a crisis except when there is a crisis.

I use spoken word to help my students rediscover wonder, to fight their instincts to be cool and unfazed and, instead, actively pursue being engaged with what goes on around them, so that they can reinterpret and create something from it.

After all, Richard Nixon s race against John Kennedy in 1960 is said to have been lost on television Kennedy looked cool and handsome, while Nixon scowled into the camera, with sweat trickling down his five o clock shadow.