Word: gentler
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...career of Author Ilya Ehrenburg, 74, spans the history of modern Russia from Czardom through Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin's years of terror, and the gentler years of the old killer's successors. Ehrenburg managed to survive it all by saying just enough of the right things and keeping a discreet tongue about the wrongs around him. Last week, in the final chapters of his rambling memoirs, People, Years, Life, Ehrenburg reminisced on the darker side of the Stalin...
...remarkable as Tarsis' courage is the fact that the author apparently has gone unpunished for his latest literary sin; at last report, he was living with his wife and daughter in a Moscow flat-and continuing to write. A further sign of the post-Khrushchev leadership's gentler treatment of artists and writers was the scheduled departure for Italy last week of controversial Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, who plans a month's poetry-reading tour. It was the first time he had been allowed outside the Soviet Union since 1963, when he roamed through France and West Germany...
Back in a gentler age, long, long ago, a basketball team didn't need a half-dozen to produce a successful season. Cut now, with Lew Alcindars sprouting from basketball courts all over the country like strange, giant jungle plants, a team without a big man is a team without a chance. This season, the freshman basketball team was without...
...snake you identified as a boa is actually an African rock python. The python usually makes a hardier, longer-lived, more interesting, gentler pet than the boa, and is much larger...
...sensuous, symmetrical turnings that a cabinet-maker's lathe could serve up. Finials, banderoles, and swags of fruit and flowers appeared, to give essentially stiff, straight-backed woodwork an animate touch. Table and chair legs ceased to butt into the floor, instead rested on gentler bun feet, but H-form stretchers low to the floor held the frames rigidly intact. Furniture of walnut and ebony supplanted oak because these woods take on a finer finish, and it was more likely that brocaded damsels rather than ironclad knights would plounce into...