Word: milquetoasts
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...into two categories, both after the war (in which Guinness briefly served) and neatly divided by the Atlantic. In England he did classics of British bumble-wit like "Kind Hearts and Coronets," "The Ladykillers," "The Man in the White Suit" and "The Lavender Hill Mob," in which Guinness's milquetoast banker waits his whole life for the perfect gold bullion theft. These were tiny movies, gems of the emotional slapstick at which he was a master...
Precisely. In Germany, once the most militaristic society on earth, you can now get a perfect cappuccino on every block. And Germans have become as aggressive as Caspar Milquetoast. The Russians? Moscow has turned into latte land, and so the remnants of the Red Army cannot even overwhelm a bunch of bedraggled Chechens. Why does Israel, a modern-day democratic Sparta, talk withdrawal from Lebanon? Just count the espresso machines on Tel Aviv's Shenkin Street...
...Speaker will be none other than Vice President Al Gore '69. He is just the man for the job. The resolutely uncontroversial Gore is the fitting embodiment of the Class of 1994, the Class that let controversy at Harvard suffer an ignominiously silent death. Certainly, the choice of the milquetoast Vice President promises a commencement free of the rancor that overhung last year's ceremony...
...campus' newest political review is a starched-shirt gov jock's wet dream. The Current does a remarkable job cloning Newsweek, if only by ripping off its entire design scheme. Catering to your everyday baby milquetoast politico, this publication attempts to make politics sexy with full-color photos and glossy paper-if by "sexy" you mean "sterile and boring." We do appreciate the glossy paper, though...
...King was organizing the Poor People's Campaign whose goal was to expand greatly the Federal Government's role in eradicating poverty. King, for all his commitment to nonviolence, was a radical advocate of social change who deliberately disrupted the status quo in pursuit of racial justice, not a milquetoast advocate of Hallmark Card-style brotherhood between the races...