Word: lukewarmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have chicken or steak for lunch and only consent to Japanese dishes at supper. The Emperor's favorite food is persimmons, and he keeps careful track of every persimmon that enters the palace lest someone make away with it. A teetotaler who hates tea, Hirohito cheers himself with lukewarm water when guests are imbibing stronger drink...
...appoint conferees only by 1) unanimous consent, which Southern Representatives will be happy to refuse because they don't like the idea of statehood for multiracial Hawaii, or 2) a go-ahead from its legislative traffic cop, the Rules Committee, controlled by the G.O.P. leadership, which is notably lukewarm toward Alaskan statehood...
...halls I know about," he asserts, "where you can get all the food you want." He is probably right. Students at Yale have little good to say about the food and are only served once. At Princeton, Howard Johnson's supplies the food, and the consensus of opinion is lukewarm at best...
Productions have been known to survive lukewarm reviews (e.g., Wish You Were Here, Kind Sir, Kismet) and fail despite good reviews (Billy Budd, Take a Giant Step), but they are the exception rather than the rule. Some plays, which cost as much as $150,000 to bring to Broadway, have closed within a week because of bad reviews. When reviews are mixed, the play is on its own, but sometimes word-of-mouth and "names" can turn it into a hit such as Cole Porter...
...Berg in Wozzeck and by Gian-Carlo Menotti in his more popular Consul. Salzburg first-nighters, remembering Von Einem's earlier, impressive opera, Danton's Death (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), came with high hopes. But by the final curtain, they found themselves less than spellbound, responded with lukewarm applause...