Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aznavour can also deliver the mild stomping songs "Il faut savoir" and "Formidable," which brought cheers from the partisans of his recordings. But the real Aznavour sings of a middle-aged entertainer waiting to go on stage; reviewing his unfulfilled dreams of glory and without looking down, he knots his necktie perfectly on the first try. In that moment Aznavour captures the great sadnesses and small joys of life...
...Bruce W. Klunder, 27, was a big, mild, bespectacled man, a sort of Clark Kent of the pulpit. But within him burned a fierce- and, as it turned out, fatal-sense of indignation...
...banged his head on the edge of a bathtub. Just inside a man's ears is an exquisitely delicate mechanism, the workings of which are not fully understood. When that mechanism is damaged, as in Glenn's case, by what his doctors at first called "a mild concussion," medical men are sometimes baffled because they cannot see into the inner ear to find what is wrong. Most of the standard tests reveal only negative information. And doctors dare not open the ear to look...
Obviously no typical dropout, he went on to success and riches in show business. But he still feels mild pangs of guilt about his casual academic career, and the song is supposed to make dropouts squirm. It does. Several West Coast disk jockeys told Sherman that they won't play the song during peak audience hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's when the dropouts are still moping around the house wondering what trouble to get into. Mustn't offend them...
Born in Richmond, Va., in 1931, Thomas F. Pettigrew escaped the doctrine of racism from the start. "I was brought up by a Scottish grandmother who thought that all Americans--North or South, black or white--were crazy," he relates. "My father was a mild-mannered man, conservative but not racist, who came from the hills of West Virginia. It was a great combination...