Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Mo Udall is more conservative than his big brother (Mo opposes farm supports, has mild reservations about federal aid to education), he seems to be a wild-eyed New Frontiersman compared with Mac Matheson, a former radio announcer who is now part owner of some Muzak franchises and who lost to Stew Udall last year. Devoted to Goldwater, Matheson strongly opposes federal aid to education, minimum wage legislation and the welfare state. Says he: "People are being offered a mess of welfare pottage in exchange for their American birthright...
...minor actors, from Caligula's clean-cut ROTC army to Scipio (a sweet young poet who wears a turtle neck sweater and an Italian zoot-suit), were mild, unprepossessing, and without talent. But from the gray haze of the production emerge the performances of Lynn Milgrim and David Gullette as Caesonia and Caligula. Miss Milgrim's asset is her presence, her ability to command the stage. She is a marble statue on a stage of mannequins...
...Brower, Master of Adams Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, and John M. Bullitt '43, Quincy House, expresed mild over the decision to abandon the diploma...
Last week the minstrels, usually a mild lot, massed in protest. One of them balanced a bass fiddle on his head. Another carried an inflammatory sign: "We Want to Continue As We Have in the Past." Politely they asked the cops if they could march around the square, and politely they were told that this would be all right, as long as no one struck a law-breaking chord of Greensleeves or Foggy...
...person Strombotne (his paternal grandparents were Norwegian) is mild enough, a considerate father (two small children) who starts each day with the sports section. But on canvas he becomes something else. He describes himself as "angry or outraged, either word will do," and, like most angry young men, shoots his outrage off in all directions. His hero is the persecuted individual, his villain the persecuting mass; he senses "instances of inhumanity all around me." A newspaper story, a political campaign, a photograph in a book-anything may trigger a painting. Says Strombotne: "I react violently to practically everything...