Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee gave the program a firm recommendation, and President Pusey, "who was very mellow" by his last year in office, agreed to it, Shultz recalls. "His attitude was, if you can talk the faculty into it, go ahead," he says...
...logs arranged like benches beneath towering elms, an enraptured, mostly young and blue-jeaned audience listens as Bessie Jones, a spirituals singer, talks about the songs her slave grandfather used to sing in the cotton fields in Virginia. As her vibrant, mellow voice lifts into song ("I'm going to lay down my life for my Lord"), the young people clap their hands in rhythm...
Bluegrass. The Independence Day weekend is fireworks on the highway, but this one might be quiet and mellow: three days of the Green Mountain Country Banjo Festival, July 4-6, 12 bucks for all three days including campsite, five bucks for each individual day, on Birdseye Mountain in Castleton, Vermont, on 800 acres, featuring Doc Watson, the world's premier flatpicker, with his son Merle, presumably doing "Tennessee Stud" like nobody can, and Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers. Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys, plus a lot of fine New England bluegrass bands. Disregard...
Despite its size, the patterning of such a project is curiously gentle. It brings to mind the mellow quilts and terraces of the Umbrian landscape that stretches below Pepper's house at Todi. Her interest in environmental art is guided by a touching sense of good urban manners. She believes that "threatening sculpture for public places is unfair, because life is so threatening." But how to make an unthreatening sculpture without going decorative? These land pieces, ground-hugging and subtly angled, but so large as to become part of the landscape of seasonal change and human action around them...
...lovely bit of rascality-brief, definable, rightly punishable and done on the high seas, where U.S. men and machines still reign. The White House in its spring splendor looked like a Hollywood set. With somber visages and firm jaws, the actors hurried through the mellow night in their sleek black limousines. House Speaker Carl Albert, 5 ft. 5 in. tall, seemed at least 5 ft. 8 in. as he pondered American prestige on the White House steps. Senator John Sparkman was besieged by reporters after the President had told him the scenario for recapturing the ship and its crew. Others...