Word: mild
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...broad theme in your work seems to be a mild form of optimistic technological determinism, in contrast to the typical 1980s cyberpunk dystopian future. Your model of the Bitchun Society in “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” in particular seems to be, if not quite a utopia, at least a world in which boredom is one of the biggest problems for most people. Do you think today that our technology is gradually narrowing the possible outcomes into a miasma of mediocrity...
...such, was destined to clash with faculty. And humanities professors had long simmered about Summers? perceived prejudice against the softer sciences - he had reportedly told a former humanities dean that economists were known to be smarter than sociologists, so they should be paid accordingly. The brusque handling of mild-mannered Kirby?s departure was, in the minds of many, an insult too many, with rumors of dismissal leaking from the President?s Office and preempting the customarily genteel resignation process. ?If anyone could have eased tension between Summers and the faculty, it was Dean Kirby,? says Matory. ?But he even...
...salinity could change the density of surface water enough to prevent it from sinking as it cools and returning south to the tropics where it can replenish ocean currents like the Gulf Stream. And because the Gulf Stream is the only reason much of Western Europe has so mild and temperate a climate, such a shutdown of that conveyor belt of heat could be nothing short of catastrophic. Oceanographers reported late last year the ominous news that one element of that family of currents has slowed 30% since 1992. It's not clear yet that this is the beginning...
...cold touch—and that ever-pressing question of what to wear. Faced with slushy, icy terrain on the Monday morning commute, students broke out bulky jackets and the occasional pair of moon boots. Shorts and flip-flops, which have been spotted around campus throughout the mild winter months, were definitely out. The cold snap brought confusion to some students’ outfits. “Sunday, I saw people running around in shorts, jumping in the snow and not knowing what to do,” said Gabriel M. Scheinmann ’08. The change in weather...
...Japanese and American professors in the 1950s. “I think what he really did was to open up the study of law after the second World War,” said son George M. von Mehren ’72. Von Mehren was known for his gentle, mild-mannered nature, and his love of interaction with students. His assistant Brad Conner said von Mehren was “always generous in what he shared with you if you asked him a question.” “When I was young, my father used to bring foreign...