Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger lingers though that the board may develop a few more Captain Veres to play opposite his Billy Budd and that the marina-by-the-sanitary-canal may get no farther than the artist's sketch.Vinton W.Bacon isn't as mild-mannered as he looks. His iron hand tactics cleaned up Chicago sewer politics but now threaten to alienate the board whose support he needs...
...gained new impetus during and since the Kennedy years. Paradoxically, perhaps, in view of their desire to work with groups, these students share the individualism, not to say anarchism, of the uncommitted law students, and they are sometimes so violently anti-bureaucratic that they cannot endure even the mild constraints and regulation either of the law school or of a government agency; like many talented students today, they suffer from a claustrophobia which resists all constraint, whether of curriculum or language or manners or the compromises of day-to-day legal practice or political life. Believing that feelings count more...
Despite Norstad's earnestness, not to mention mild support from former NATO Secretaries-General Paul-Henri Spaak and Dirk Stikker, the plan got nowhere. It would not have been easy for Americans to accept the picture of their President sitting around a Swiss chalet waiting for anybody-or nobody...
This month, misfortune of another kind hit Robert E. Simon Jr., the mild-mannered millionaire developer of Reston, Va., best-known and by far the most architecturally visionary of the new towns. In a corporate reshuffle, Gulf Oil Corp. took control of the financially ailing project, kicked Simon upstairs from president and chief executive officer to a consulting role as chairman of a newly formed subsidiary, Gulf-Reston Inc. As the new boss, the oil company named Robert H. Ryan, a Pittsburgh realty consultant and onetime vice president of Boston-based Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, itself the developer of the floundering...
...pressing on into politics, Koningsberger sets out to delineate the psyche of a revolutionary. In this case, the revolutionary is a young university student, known in the book only as A., who out of dislike for his bourgeois parents drifts from membership in a mild radical party to participation in an assassination plot with bomb-throwing anarchists. Any work on this subject inevitably demands comparison with some 20th century masterpieces, including Malraux's Man's Fate and Camus' long essay The Rebel. In that company, Koningsberger is hopelessly out of place; what is more, his character...