Word: mutedness
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Vastly more important, Jobs has been instrumental in selling hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of Americans on the new technology. He insisted that the Apple II be what the jargon calls "user friendly." He wanted it light and trim, well designed in muted colors, and today pushes his engineers hard...
The 19th century missionaries and their immediate successors have been attacked by historians and many Third World leaders for having served as spiritual agents of the colonizing powers, blithely destroying cultures as they sought to impose Western values as well as Christian doctrines on their converts. In a somewhat more...
Betancur certainly sounded nonaligned. Even his public remarks at lunch with Reagan, after their 45-minute private talk, were harsh. He said that Colombian products are denied full access to the U.S. market by tariffs, that the U.S. should prod the IMF to lend more money more easily to countries...
U.S. officials remain disappointed by the generally muted world reaction to their accusations. One explanation, according to some experts, may be that the U.S., unfortunately, has not persuasively demonstrated that it is doing its best to document the charges. Noting that the State Department has only two part-time nonspecialists...
Many student editors feel equally combative. Visually, their papers are often cluttered and oldfashioned, but they argue their cases with blunt headlines and florid, Buckleyesque prose. Most are far more interested in opinion than in news. Says Roger Brooks, editor in chief of Princeton's year-old Madison Report...