Word: gentler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm message that President Eisenhower was scheduled to send to Congress that very day. The Senators had found in the advance text a lingering echo of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's crusading spirit, and they felt that, considering Benson's unpopularity in the farm belt, a gentler tone was indicated in an election year...
...gentler times an American political campaign was, in peacetime, something of a summer frolic, decked in bunting and confetti, full of oratorical balloon ascensions, baby-kissing, and free beer for everybody. The outside world learned to forgo any serious business and to watch with amused tolerance for the duration. In the taut days of 1960, the American political campaign is something quite different-a serious debate treating soberly the great issues that will affect the whole of mankind, enacted before the eyes of an anxious world...
...problems a satirist has is that she is always accused of writing about people she knows. My last novel, Fires of Autumn, is about a tiny Maine community very much like the one in which we stay during the summer. It's a lot gentler than my earlier novels and now I find all these ladies who are resentful because they can't find themselves in it. One of them will come up to me and say, 'I know somebody who knows who every single character in your book is supposed...