Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like good brandy, Howe seems to improve-if not exactly mellow-with age. Last year, though Howe had a good year, Detroit finished fifth in a six-team league. This year they stayed out of the losing column until the eleventh game of the season, last week were battling for the league lead...
...time. You might not Approve, to be sure, but you certainly could always Tell. Frisky. Groomed. Bumptious. Friendly. Sleek. The flinty granite of the East, the knotted pine of the far-flung Reaches, and the lumpish topsoil of the Midwest all gentled and traveled by four years of mellow College life. Yes, that was the Yalie all right. As far from a top hat as a Hottentot, but withal, a man to remember, to conjure up, to savor-to be reckoned with...
...such numbers as Groovin' or Moonglow, Hawkins' sax capers in a loose-jointed way that mirrors the musician's pleasure; in Think Deep, say, or When Day Is Done, the style remains as virile as ever, but the tone becomes even warmer and more open-throated-mellow in a manner that Saxophone Inventor Adolphe Sax (1814-94) would never have believed...
...Amazing & Dissonant." Delighted Republicans found it impossible to hold their silence. Arizona's Barry Goldwater sarcastically wondered aloud whether ex-Republican Morse was considering a switch back to the G.O.P. side of the aisle. Illinois' mellow-voiced Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen arose to "protect" Mansfield against Morse. "Let me pay tribute to the humility and forbearance of the majority leader," said Republican Dirksen. "I know what a humble character he is. He has made an effort to harmonize 100 diverse personalities in the U.S. Senate. O great God, what an amazing and dissonant 100 personalities there...
...Reivers, by William Faulkner. The last mellow work of the great Southern writer, culminating a 30-year love affair with Yoknapatawpha County...