Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT a civilized city," you said, as you stood on the doorstep of your house, your rented castle, looking up and down the quiet street. The mellow lamplight and the shadow of the trees combined to form a second dusk, in which the sounds of nearing footsteps and the noise of an approaching car brought only mild curiosity, not apprehension. Yes, you are right: London is a civilized city. It has strikes, demonstrations, skinhead forays against hippies, and racial troubles with its West Indians, Africans and Pakistanis. But compared to America's big cities, it is profoundly at peace...
...which he takes over next month, Reasoner will be based in Manhattan, and Smith will continue in Washington. Judging from Reasoner's past form, he will be empathic, bemused and, in the nonpejorative sense of the term, Middle American. His style is a mellow mixture of an Iowa boyhood, a Stanford and University of Minnesota education, newspapering in Minneapolis, the World War II Army, a stint with the U.S.I.A., the demi-sophistication of CBS plus the vicissitudes of fathering seven children...
Tonis predicts that if gung-ho recruits do not mellow, they will not last long on the Harvard police...
...even harmful to the beverage"). He acknowledges that neophyte pop enthusiasts prefer their drinks chilled to the freezing point, yet notes that "serious drinkers prefer their soda pop cold in the mouth, but not ice cold." He advises devotees to avoid smoking while sampling, but admits that a mellow root beer enhances the flavor of a good cigar. "To see the delicacy of a light, joyous celery tonic smothered by a cloud of gray smoke," Shorris laments, "is depressing to even the most casual connoisseur...
...matter of time, American youth got with it and began reconsidering certain lines of prejudice, such as that between Pop and Rhythm-and-Blues, or between black and white. Obscure, starving bluesmen began selling more records and playing to a lot more white faces. Youth learned that a mellow old man like B.B. King could...