Word: milquetoasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stronger Democratic candidate might have capitalized on Rockefeller's sagging state popularity. The governor has made mistakes: the unfortunate sales tax promise, appointment of some officials who proved corrupt, a milquetoast conservation policy, and an unsympathetic stance on New York City's revenue problem...
Deep down, even the most Milquetoast driver occasionally imagines himself a Juan Fangio or Jimmy Clark, shifting down for the Curva Grande at Monza or roaring onto the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans. Few automakers play on this fancy so successfully as Milan's Alfa-Romeo. An ad for the sporty Giulia GT model, for instance, shows a father strapping on a crash helmet while his wife and child prepare to climb in. "The family car that wins races," proclaims the ad. Thanks to its fast cars and fanciful advertising, Alfa-Romeo is pulling ahead in the Italian auto...
...film, on the other hand, he is a milquetoast. He looks like a model from some fashion magazine--just as depressingly lifeless, unreal, and unlikeable. He is no more than a simple foil for Zorba. The film implies, apparently unintentionally, that this effeminate character is homosexual. Although the suggestion is later contradicted, it is unmistakable and confusing...
Newman upheld TV's right to Milquetoast programming, even on newscasts: "I don't think it's realistic to expect organizations that live by advertising to pioneer in fields that may offend people." With some justice, he made news brevity on TV a virtue: "One reason we have such a great impact is that we edit. We edit to a degree that I think it is fair to say the New York Times does not. It doesn't edit very often; it compiles...
...father's thriving tin-can and cardboard-box business, he seemed to have everything he needed-the best clothes, a sleek, white Lincoln Continental, an eight-room Park Avenue apartment in which he maintained his attractive wife, Nancy, and their three children. But Fein, slender, bespectacled and Milquetoast-mild in appearance, frittered away a small fortune on a pair of extracurricular pursuits-gambling and Gloria Kendal. In her 37 years, the last 16 of them spent as a prostitute and a madam, Gloria has been known by at least 13 other proper names and by any number of improper...