Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bulldog way, Rich is engaging, and fellow musicians are hoping that the band will make it big. If so, it will be another boost for the big-band business, which is enjoying a mild resurgence. If not, says Harry James, "I'm keeping his chair warm...
...impression is that many of those people signing the petition condemning Harvard students' breach of decorum during the visit of Secretary McNamara are doing so on grounds of etiquette and ignoring the more basic political issues. Justifications for extremist behavior, even of the mild sort witnessed at Harvard, are often very difficult to understand from the standpoint of an established society or an established policy. For people sincerely opposed to the war in Vietnam on reasoned grounds, I see three justifications for the treatment accorded McNamara...
Columbia pulled a mild upset by defeating Penn, 22-14, for its first victory of the season. More surprising than the outcome, however, was the Columbia strategy to stick to the ground...
...intensity. Other people were--or would be--thinking similar thoughts about the afternoon's events. For the meeting of McNamara and his critics on Mill St. was not an ordinary occurrence for Harvard. It resembled no other political protest in the College's recent history. Previous demonstrations had been mild in comparison. The most memorable, perhaps, was George Wallace's visit to Cambridge in the fall of 1963. It provoked a large demonstration on Cambridge Common and picketing around Sanders Theatre. All that happened then, however, was that someone let the air out of the tires of Wallace...
...work is to poke mild fun at the bombast of the rules, and to highlight their potential absurdity," explains composer Robert Levin...