Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University investigators reported that they had just conducted the first truly scientific tests ever made on the subject. Their findings, which appear in Science magazine, confirm some popular ideas about marijuana's effects and expose others as completely false. The drug, the investigators concluded, "appears to be a relatively mild intoxicant, with minor, real, shortlived effects." It seems to have a greater effect on thinking and perception than on reflexes and coordination...
Because influenza is seldom fatal for a person who is in generally good health before he catches it, some authorities have described Hong Kong flu as a "mild illness." That is highly misleading. All types of influenza virus are about equal in their ability to cause severe illness. What varies enormously-and with it, the ultimate severity of the disease-is the individual victim's constitution and resistance. Some otherwise healthy people are especially susceptible to disabling illness that lasts several weeks. Others can throw off the flu after a week or so, with perhaps half that time spent...
...melange of sound effects and music-ranging from Mozart to the Mothers of Invention-that is pouring through his headphones. On another, a girl guest performs a barefoot ballet, delighting in the swirl of the toga around her legs. Off in a corner, a couple engages in mild petting. Attendants pad back and forth, visiting silently with guests or passing out toys: slide projectors, mirrors, kaleidoscopes, helium-filled balloons. A long-haired girl ties four of the balloons to her tresses and parades serenely along the walkway, looking like the Wicked Witch of the West...
ATKINS did not stage a Brooke-like campaign. As a student in the Law School, and a former militant executive of the Boston NAACP, Atkins ran for the Council last year as a progressive spokesman for Roxbury. In a mild upset, he came in seventh among eighteen for one of the nine city-wide seats...
Noon and Night play it safer and softer. Terrence McNally redoes French farce à la Grove Press in a play where all the vice is versa. A heterosexual is mistaken for a homosexual, a pair of mild Babbitts turn out to be, in tact, sadistic leather fetishists, a droning housewife is an aspiring nymphomaniac. After a number of legitimate laughs, McNally tries to be momentous in a conclusion about the necessity of love, but that message is articulated every week on Laugh-In: "Whatever turns you on . . ." Night is by Leonard Melfi, considered one of off-Broadway's emerging...