Word: harmless
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...last night's Pudding opening. It's not that the folks on Holyoke Street have given up their traditions of adolescent sex humor, bathroom jokes, and Gold-Coast-sensibility wisecracks. They've half-heartedly tried to keep appearances up, in fact. But the first night was so obviously harmless that it would take a lot of effort to be offended...
...helpless woman of the future, as projected by Scarlet's daughter Byzantia. Condescending to her mother's generation, Byzantia sees men as the symptom "of a fearful disease from which you all suffered" With Byzantia, "nothing is hidden, nothing is feared. " Everything is discussed - that is, "rendered harmless" - and then "simply forgotten...
...know whether they have a proper system of ceremonial etiquette," one Oriental lord wrote of the Namban-jin, or "people from the south." "They eat with their fingers instead of chopsticks as we do. They show their feelings without any self-control...but withal they are a harmless sort of people...
...enough of turning Vonnegut into literary scholarship. Space Daisy would do great service to a deserving writer if she filmed The Vonnegut Statement. She could borrow the Slaughterhouse-Five technique of running the film backward (the bombers suck up their bombs which regress to factory parts and finally harmless ores) and so rebury the "objective correlatives" and "eschatological imperatives" in the uncomplicated plea sures and meanings of the original novels...
Whoever gave the Trinity athletic teams the nickname "Bantams" must have had the talents of the fencing team in mind. For in yesterday's fencing match with Harvard, the Trinity squad was very "bantamlike," showing a little unwarranted cockiness while being basically harmless...