Word: lukewarm
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Suzanne Labin writes with a hatpin. This young (thirtyish) French political scientist impales totalitarian myths and neutralist delusions, prods lukewarm intellectuals who rarely rise to the defense of democracy, or if they do, praise it with faint damns. Author Labin has small use for so-called thinkers who don the smoked glasses of a spurious objectivity and report that they can see no difference between Western freedom and Eastern tyranny except "shades of grey." She believes that it is worth restating the great central truth, or "secret," of democracy, i.e., that it is the first, last, best and only hope...
...Stable has hot music, cold drinks, and lukewarm girls for latecomers...
Chiang has no taste for the recreations, hobbies or frivolous interests that make for intimate friends, and he has none. He lives the life of an ascetic. He drinks only water (boiled and lukewarm) and sometimes tea. He never smokes. He eats sparingly. On the mainland his regime was always a coalition of old enemies, jealous friends and potential defectors, and Chiang always rated personal loyalty to himself above efficiency. With an armed opposition party in the land, he had to. He still does...
Florida Democrat George Smathers says he is for the bill, but "I can think of a couple of little amendments I might propose." Delaware Democrat J. Allen Frear and Republicans Eugene Millikin of Colorado, Edward Martin of Pennsylvania and Ralph Flanders of Vermont are, at best, lukewarm toward the bill and at worst, bitterly opposed. Louisiana Democrat Russell Long is "almost ioo%" for the bill, but Nevada Republican George Malone is 100% against it. Other views...
...many plays in the past have suffered from, and have eventually overcome, such problems as lukewarm reviews and extended revisions. What hit Silk Stockings in Boston of January 22 was something entirely new and unexpected. Under the headline: KAUFMANS DISOWN SILK STOCKINGS', the Herald reported how George Kaufman and his wife Leueen McGrath, co-authors of Silk Stockings, had just seen the show in Boston after several weeks of absence from the troupe withdrawing from the production. Kaufman has never made clear whether he did not like the show in Boston or simply thought that Abe Burrows had re-written...