Word: relax
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Field commanders complain that soldiers lack aggressiveness and sometimes even refuse to fight. One colonel said that some of his men were "like foreigners," speaking a language utterly different from his own. The military's new efforts to relax unnecessarily rigid discipline and humanize the whole system (TIME cover, Dec. 21) may reduce this generation gap somewhat, but it is not only the enlisted men who find the Army wanting. A wonderfully articulate major, who read Timon of Athens during a slow day in Viet Nam, confided to his diary: "Once I was sure that whoever would...
...written in 1936 and long considered a classic of atonal music, was simply too "modern" and too unmelodic for the Israel Philharmonic's public, many of whom believe that real music may have stopped with the arrival of Stravinsky. "We come to the concerts tired and want to relax," explained one subscription holder. "We have our own problems and don't need Schoenberg's on top of them...
...Concannon has been vacationing in Miami since December 23, so Harvard's selection committee could relax...
...long visit have to learn a few things. "When people come here to stay with us here in the winter," Lance explains, "it takes a while for them to unwind. They get here and they seem to be waiting for something to happen. After a while they begin to relax-they find out that they can just live and take their time to do things. I spent hours last year just watching an eagle catching air currents by the cliffs out there. It was really remarkable-he'd balance in the air, tilt and dip, and rise again forever without...
Imprecise Charges. Even as it moved to plant its political seedbed, the regime last week also acted to root out what little unwanted advice and opposition it still has to endure. A few months ago, Papadopoulos slowly began to relax some of the colonels' rigid controls, but hard-liners in the junta's twelve-man inner circle immediately grew alarmed. Now Papadopoulos is retrenching, fearful of losing his struggle to stay on top. One of the measures that he authorized last week was a decree that persons spreading "false reports or rumors" detrimental to anything from police morale...