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...South Dakota Senator is personally mild, all right, tends to speak in complete sentences and simple words, leaves the rostrum before him mostly unpounded, and believes-as he said here last week-that "the task of political leadership is to appeal to what is best in each one of us instead of what is mean and divisive." Yet, anyone who heard him the night before at a raucous Democratic party rally in the municipal auditorium at Albuquerque might be forced to revise his opinion about George McGovern's stump style-and the political atmosphere...
...guidelines for corporate virtuousness," Allison said. "Yet the Treasurer and the Corporation make such judgments every day. At least in the case of front-page news like proxy votes, there's no obvious strategy that avoids conflict. Not even symbolic neutrality, because an abstention is just considered a mild support of management...
Benign neglect seems too mild a phrase for Nixon's treatment of the men he aims to replace. Ambassador...
...stood on the doorstep of your house, your rented castle, looking up and down the quiet street. The mellow lamplight and the shadow of the trees combined to form a second dusk, in which the sounds of nearing footsteps and the noise of an approaching car brought only mild curiosity, not apprehension. Yes, you are right: London is a civilized city. It has strikes, demonstrations, skinhead forays against hippies, and racial troubles with its West Indians, Africans and Pakistanis. But compared to America's big cities, it is profoundly at peace...
...literature. But most of Freud's own followers limited his legacy by insisting at least as firmly as he did that only the early years of life are substantially formative. The Freudian disciple who can be credited with broadening the original theory and restoring its vitality is a mild, German-born analyst and teacher named Erik Erikson. His now famous notion that a man's whole lifetime moves through a series of discernible and crucial stages grew largely out of Erikson's own personal development. That development is skillfully and admiringly traced in Erik H. Erikson...