Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lobbying in Congress for better legislation to protect the aged. Says Miss Kuhn: "Much of senility is not irreversible; it is induced by despair and frustration. Fixed retirement is dehumanizing. It shows how stupid our society is in making scrap piles of the elderly. We're not mellow, sweet old people. We've got time to effect change and nothing to lose." Gray Power has even attracted youthful devotees -known, of course, as the Panther Cubs...
...have the same personal quality of Dylan's and Smither's, but they are not as subtle nor as consistently poetical. They are all good, but one gets the feeling he could have frequently said as much with considerably less strain. "Peas Porridge Hot" and "Real as Rain" are mellow, light songs in which Gerdes relaxes, sings smoothly, and plays his guitar well. "Time Will Let You In" and "Gardenia Lady" are also fine songs, which express with moving melancholy the dilemma of people caught in time...
...Pihl's set--although it boasts a revolving center--is not what you call inspired. But I think I'll choose instead to end with Paul Schommer's musical direction, which, to my untutored ear, handles well the supple score, maintaining a nice balance between its melodic strings and mellow horns...
...invented her anew: in Shaw's drawing-room heroines, Laurentian sensualists, Brett Ashleys, flappers, women who smoked and drank and swore and brushed their teeth with last night's Scotch, got divorced or did not bother to get married at all, wore pants, and perhaps in the mellow suburban '50s, lived to grow old as Auntie Mame...
...young board members often start out with ambitious ideas-that is one advantage of their arrival on the boards-but time and experience inevitably mellow even the most aggressive of the newcomers. Even Larry Hamm. When Board Member Cervase obtained a temporary court injunction last December restraining Newark schools from flying Black Power flags, Hamm took it calmly. Said he: "If the courts don't take care of it, the legislature will." Either way, Hamm says he will obey...