Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the residents of Montebello Poniente (pop 8,000) a suburb of San Salvador on the slopes of one of El Salvador s largest volcanoes, heard the rumblings shortly after dawn, they assumed that it was just another mild earthquake, the sort they had experienced many times before But then a boy ran down the town's main street knocking on doors and screaming: "The lava is coming, the lava is coming! He was wrong- the long-dormant volcano had not erupted-but the neighbors who heeded Ms warning were wise. Within minutes, an 8-ft-high wave...
Several students interviewed yesterday cited as a problem what they see as a wide disparity between stringent requirements for honors concentrators and mild requirements for non-honors concentrators...
...John's is aware of the obvious criticism that its approach is "elitist" and even "irrelevant" to the real world. But President Edwin DeLattre's mild voice turns a bit sharp when he retorts, "If knowing the foundations of one's country-the foundations of one's civilization-if understanding and learning how to gain access to the engines of political and economic power in the world-if knowing how to learn in mathematics and the sciences, the languages, the humanities-if having access to the methods that have advanced civilizations since the dawn of human...
Those Those who who like like artists artists with with dramatic dramatic lives (hot, heavy, conflict-ridden ear-cutters or their SoHo clones) will be dis appointed by Milton Avery's. No major American artist has a thinner dossier. A mild, unassuming man who disliked publicity and made at best a bare living from his work, he joined no groups, signed no manifestos, was linked to no political causes, clobbered no body in the Cedar Bar and said very little about himself; when asked for his theories about art, his usual reply was "Why talk when you can paint...
...Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, has organized and displayed this exhibition with its usual flair. Scandinavian design, says the museum's sumptuous exhibition catalogue (published in hard cover by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; $45), "scatters flowers before your feet and lays the pale colors and mild beauty of the Nordic summer before your eyes. Less apparent is the truth that this sunny effect is achieved against a background of darkness, cold, ice and snow...