Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yoked. Ike's presence in Chicago, his ebullience and confidence, was just the right ticket for Dick Nixon. The President's moderating breakfast speech, his behind-the-door and over-the-phone talks with leaders, strengthened faint hearts, calmed hot tempers. The result was that Nixon could pick his own way past the Administration's record to follow the new lines he had laid out with Rockefeller...
Rocky still seemed to be cherishing a faint hope of a presidential-nomination draft. He solemnly declared that he would accept a "genuine draft," though he added that the possibility was "very remote...
...that he has used his Cinema-Scope cameras in sets seldom larger than the parlor of a miner's cottage, with none of the 40-foot ear lobes that sometimes result from wide-screen intimacy. Spectacle is firmly resisted; a disastrous mine explosion is recorded merely by a faint tremor on the surface of a millpond beside which two lovers are lolling. The impact, of course, is twice as forceful as if the air had been filled with flying coal carts. Much of the dialogue is Lawrence's, and it is a reminder of what a remarkable dialogue...
Author Lee, 34, an Alabaman, has written her first novel with all of the tactile brilliance and none of the preciosity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issue for Southern writers. The novel is an account of an awakening to good and evil, and a faint catechistic flavor may have been inevitable. But it is faint indeed; Novelist Lee's prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life. (A notable one:"Naming people after Confederate generals makes slow steady drinkers...
...Office Glitter. Tibbett always had a faint distrust of grand opera's grand pretensions. The music of Jerome Kern, he used to argue, was as good as many an imported classic. When critics roasted him for including Old Man River in a program of operatic excerpts, he responded by including it in almost every recital he sang after that. He also laced his concert programs with popular tranquilizers-De Glory Road, Gwine to Hebb'n, At Dawning. Tibbett probably made more money than his contemporaries because he was the first to exploit the box-office glitter...