Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community, favors what Economist Paul A. Samuelson calls a "dovish-bullish syndrome"-which conjures up visions of a hybrid creature with wings, hooves and horns. Recent history shows that peace pays. World War II and Korea were followed not by the depressions that had been predicted, but only by mild recessions that were soon erased by new bursts of prosperity. A stand-down in Viet Nam would help both to cool inflation and to open new opportunities for dealing with some of the social ills that hurt the nation and its economy...
...PIECE in the CRIMSON Supplement last Wednesday, I pointed out that the federal government has become the largest single source of income for American universities, according to U. S. Office of Education statistics. Harvard, a mild case among large private institutions, received 37.8 per cent of its total income from the federal government last year, as compared with 33.6 per cent from private gifts and endowment earnings. The piece showed how, without exerting any direct control, the federal government has changed the entire character of the university, converted it into a "service station," and deeply disturbed the internal university structure...
BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men-one mild and monogamous, the other rootless and haunted-over the fate...
...last week to be crowned Queen of the annual Azalea Festival. Tiny Tricia (she's working at bringing her weight up to 100 Ibs.) went through an exhausting round of receptions and luncheons in a series of winsome minidresses, then gave the town fathers and mothers a mild shock by showing up for the coronation in her own gown instead of the one provided by the city. There to bestow the crown was her proud father, who stole a few hours away from the White House to fly down for the festival. Tricia also had something of a surprise...
...meantime, the large majority of Freshmen, now joined by several upperclassmen, continued their original and more mild tactics of disrupting both the morning and evening Chapel services. To add a voice to their noise, the Freshmen called a class meeting to discuss the incidents...