Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote to capitulate, the editor continued, "started as a mild compromise and snowballed into complete surrender. Strozier now has everything he wants...
...years others have tried to knock it off. But no one ever challenged Parisian dressmakers' sovereignty over Parisians themselves-until last week. At the Printemps department store, a sort of French Macy's, Parisian women who used to snigger at British "tow sack" styles were causing a mild riot, buying English dresses almost as fast as they could be shipped in, despite a 52% French duty. The wool dresses were ordinary, low-priced utility numbers that could be bought off the peg in modest shops in Birmingham or Liverpool. In Paris none sold for more than...
...showpiece for Ballet Theatre's top stars, Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch, with little more to recommend it. A chorus of dancers flits onstage, poses while the principals leap and gyrate, trips offstage to line up for another round. Agreed the critics: Choreographer Nijinska's mild new ballet helps prove once again the superb talent of Dancers Alonso and Youskevitch...
Actually, there were two Ensors-the young man who painted some mild early pieces of impressionism, and the mature craftsman of disagreeableness. The Museum of Modern Art arranged its exhibit so that visitors would see the mild stuff first. But the early Ensors, e.g., pleasant home-town scenes such as Ostend Rooftops and Afternoon at Ostend, quickly gave place to the later ones: the swirling Tribulations of St. Anthony, a skeleton-haunted Banquet of the Starved, a macabre dumb-show entitled Masks Confronting Death. His most famous picture, Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (TIME...
Hearty Joseph Duveen, who died (in 1939) Lord Duveen of Millbank, bullied and cajoled two generations of U.S. multimillionaires into amassing some of the greatest private art collections in history. Today the firm is headed by two mild-mannered former Duveen assistants, President Edward Fowles and Vice President Bertram Boggis. The old "super-customers," as Vice President Boggis calls them, have disappeared. In their place are some "very good customers." Who they are, Fowles and Boggis prefer not to say. "Nobody would deal with you if you were so indiscreet as to tell...