Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...senate committee to study, in Dean Sizer's words, "how this faculty..., with its own set of strengths and weaknesses, could best use its resources to illumine and improve the quality education." Financed by a $25,000 grant from the Carnegie Fundation, the committee conidered everything from the mild-reforms to the most radical. After it had reached a consensus, German Israel Scheffler drafted a report that was released last week now it will be debated by the faculty. Excerpts from the Scheffler Report appear below...
...mild surprise has been Skip Sviokia, who accompanies Dave Davis at the tackle spots. Sviokia, a converted fullback, put on a fine show against Holy Cross, recovering a fumble and making several key tackles...
However, one might well wonder why Louis Jourdan was ever cast as the leading man. Alan Lerner writes for protaganists who are mild-mannered yet tough, such as Rex Harrison or Richard Burton. Jourdan never goes beyond politeness, and hence he is penalized by being left blacked out at the side of the stage like some naughty hockey player while the English revelries are taking place. While passable on the romantic numbers, his voice lacks both the power required for the showstoppers and the philosophic tone needed for others. Worst of all, his explanations of psychoanalytic theory find him more...
Destroyed Myth. The jubilant Indian press last week printed the army's claim to have already destroyed 284 U.S.-built Patton tanks, which had never before been battle-tested. The progress of the war, crowed the Indian Express, "destroys much of the myth of the meek and mild Hindus as it has the legend of the superiority of the American-built and American-supplied Patton tanks and Sabre jets...
...easy enough for Utter and his men to wipe them out with grenades or incinerate them with flamethrowers. Trouble was, the V.C. had herded 390 women and children into the tunnel with them. So Utter chose the humane way, shoving into the tunnel mouth 48 canisters of CN, a mild tear gas that is briefly aggravating to eyes and nose, has no other effect whatsoever. Out streamed the Viet Cong, and the 390 captives into the hands of the marines...