Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slug for Slap. On some campuses, counter-protesters engaged in debates or separate rallies. In Detroit, the opposition sang The Star-Spangled Banner over and over, all but drowning out the Vietniks. In Chicago and Oakland, Calif., demonstrators were pelted with raw eggs, and cops broke up a few mild scuffles. The leading rank of 10,000 paraders in New York City got doused with red paint. Even pleaders for peace can become aggressive. At New Jersey's Rutgers University, a hotbed of anti-Viet Nam sentiment (see preceding story), a middle-aged woman lightly slapped Biology Senior Alan...
...Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, 79, in Chicago's Billings Hospital after a mild heart attack; Italian Foreign Minister and U.N. General Assembly President Amintore Fanfani, 57, in Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital after he ruptured a quadriceps tendon in his right leg in a spill outside a friend's house; France's gossiping Existentialist Simonede Beauvoir, 57, fetched home by Old Comrade Jean-Paul Sartre to recover in Paris from badly bruised legs and chest after her car collided with a truck in Burgundy...
...stand a chance given a strong leader in either country who could absorb the political shock of a compromise. However Ayub, already losing ground on the Kashmir issue, has had his political standing undermined by the American rebuffs. Shastri occupies the vacuum left by Nehru and thus enjoys only mild support with elections fifteen months away. In fact, peace-loving Shastri has been forced by his domestic insecurity to make the most belligerent speeches heard this year outside Peking...
...there is no central figure in The Looking Glass War--and far less a hero--great novels have been written without one. If there are no characters for whom we can feel more than a mild intellectual sympathy, well, good novels have lacked them. But some of the characters in The Looking Glass War seem to have no existence except as objects of Le Carre's pitiless gaze, and that is a sign of trouble...
Talking to Timothy Leary, you're pretty sure he's right--probably because his idea alone are enough to induce a mild psychedelic experience. He never lets you forget that he holds an LsD., a "degree" which he says takes most of a lifetime to acquire. He did some of the work towards this degree at Harvard, while a Lecturer on Clinical Psychology. During the notorious "drug scandal" of 1963 he was dismissed from his post--ostensibly for spending too much time away from Cambridge...