Word: lukewarmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program got under way with a staid, ten-minute monologue by the staid BBC's Edward Halliday. Then Sir Gerald broke into Halliday's lukewarm praise of a Rembrandt self-portrait. "My dear fellow," he boomed, "that's a bloody work of genius." Pointing out a drop of water on a tulip, Sir Gerald cried: "Look at that confounded drop of water. Looks as if it might fall off any moment. That's sheer damned skill." Of Rembrandt's A Man in Armour: "I just go all goo-goo when I stand in front...
...cities where the Clubs are lukewarm toward recruitment, and especially in areas where there are no Harvard Clubs, this ideal system deteriorates badly. Instead of receiving a list of pre-tested prospects from Club committeemen, undergraduates soon discover that they are the recruiting. In their short vacation time, they must hunt around town for new prospects instead of injecting conviction into men already interested. Worse, when the undergraduate recruiter returns to Cambridge, nobody follows up his prospects--except perhaps the Yale and Princeton scouts. It is little wonder, than, that from the standpoint of number and quality of applications, some...
...Army. The results of that survey, announced in a preliminary report this fall, show that Harvard men are more allergic to khaki than all but one of ten representative schools in the country. Only fifteen per cent tested here evinced any desire to go into service. The bulk were lukewarm at best, and fully a quarter wanted nothing to do with the armed forces...
...opposed to German participation in the general staff. Let them give us soldiers, nothing more." The French Foreign Ministry hurriedly denied that he had said such a tactless thing. In view of Herriot's opposition and Pinay's lukewarm support, ratification by the French Parliament is still possible, but chancier than ever...
...Apple Picker. From Quantico the Stevenson motorcade moved on to Richmond, where Saturday afternoon crowds on Richmond's streets gave Stevenson only a lukewarm reception. That evening at Richmond's Mosque Auditorium, Virginia's political boss, Senator Harry Byrd, was conspicuously missing from the speaker's platform. Busy picking apples, Byrd's friends said. But the audience was pleased as Stevenson invoked the magic name of Robert E. Lee and praised the Confederacy's constitution...