Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insignificant, petty disputes from those which cause deep international division. For this purpose, only a few days of summit discussion are necessary. Any attempt to reach binding decisions would only emphasize present divisions. The best that can come from a big-four conference is an atmosphere a little more mellow for the quiet, serious business of conventional diplomacy that follows...
...individuality of this mythical hero of two later generations of would-be revolutionaries. His career as a writer, his reaction against the World War, his associations, and inborn rebelliousness more surely led Reed to communism. For, to Reed, revolution was, as John Dos Passos '16 writes, "a voice as mellow as Copey's, Diogenes Steffens with Marx for a lantern going through the west looking for a good man, Socrates Steffens kept asking why not resolution? Jack Reed wanted to live in a tub and write verses; but he kept meeting bums workingmen husky guys he liked out of luck...
...authentic back street swagger. One of his bosses is Congressman Al Gaiter (Robert Rosenberger), who is a bit rough for a slick politician, although he gives the impression of a man of graft. A sturdy Harvard valiant, Hobart, is portrayed by Thomas Russell, whose voice is enjoyably mellow and clear...
Pierre Monteux, 79, French-born conductor, shuttled from the Metropolitan Opera, where he led mellow performances of Faust (and will lead Manon and Orfeo this week), to Carnegie Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music for three well-played sessions with the Boston Symphony...
...Communist Party headquarters and newspapers around the world were left without intelligible words to explain the sudden abandonment of a line and a "monolithic unity" they had devoted two years to peddling. Socialists in Britain and West Germany were hard put to justify their thesis that Russia's mellow new leadership was ready to become friendly if only those rigid Americans would cease their demands for German rearmament...