Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While taking his ease at the bar of a Paris hotel, soft-spoken Playwright Tennessee (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Williams was accosted by a reporter, pessimistically discussed his philosophy of dramatics. How much in today's stage plays or movies is really new? Replied Williams: "Everything has been said and resaid. I never write anything with the idea of putting any ideas into it, perhaps because I don't have any ideas. Mostly, I have a heart. I don't have any message any more." Do such beliefs lead to ambiguity in his work? Williams...
...rebuked (1938) by Pope Pius XI for trying to appease the Nazis; of a heart attack; in Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer had the swastika raised over Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral when the Nazis marched into Austria in March 1938, discovered too late that his go-it-soft policies did not save Austrian Catholicism...
...rabble of rebellion. A relative by marriage, Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Oliver, who was a member of the infamous (to revolutionaries) Mandamus Council, also moved to Boston, at the request of a mob of 4000. Another mob, composed of "boys and negroes," persuaded Chief-Justice Stephen Sewall to take his "soft, smooth, insinuating eloquence" elsewhere...
Troublemakers. It was not Harding who fired first, however, but Greek Orthodox Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, spiritual leader of the island's 410,000 Greek Cypriots and temporal leader of the enosis movement. Makarios ordered a "systematic campaign of passive resistance aimed at achieving national freedom." Besides the grave, soft-spoken archbishop and his church are two other groups more openly committed to violence in support of enosis - an underground terrorist gang called E.O.K.A. and the Cyprus Communist Party, whose 18,000-member Pancypriot Labor Federation has a hammer lock on the island's labor force, and whose membership...
...horse. Bob Kyasky, the fastest back of all, was nursing a bad knee. Mike Zeigler had run afoul of Army discipline and was finished with 'football. Don Holleder, the All-America end who had been shifted to quarterback, still had to learn how to fire his lefthanded passes soft enough for the average man to hold them. For Coach Blaik. beating Furman 81-0 in the opening game was already a half-forgotten memory...