Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudest backers. Similarly, Fox had pledged the Post to support Massachusetts' Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and abruptly switched position. His story now is that after discussions with others, including Neanderthal Republican Publisher Basil Brewer of New Bedford, Mass., he decided that Cabot Lodge was "soft on Communism" and that therefore he decided to move over and back Democratic Candidate John Kennedy. The day the Post's Kennedy-for-Senator editorial appeared, by Fox's account, Fox talked to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, multimillionaire father of the candidate, who agreed to lend Fox a cool...
...play in front of the French goal. Then Garrincha took a return pass and booted away at the corner of the goal. He missed by inches, but the crowd settled back with a satisfied sigh. The final score (Brazil 5, France 2) was a foregone conclusion. Brazil's soft, pinpoint passes, incredibly skilled dribbling and booming scoring shots added up to the finest play yet seen in the longest and toughest soccer tournament ever staged...
...fragment three times, the piece must end. Another Stockhausen experiment: Groups, a 20-minute work which calls for three orchestras playing simultaneously under three separate conductors. His work in progress: a piece for electronic and conventional instruments, which will allow the instrumentalists to play fast or slow, loud or soft according to their humor...
Forty-three soul-savers walked amid the soft lawns and chandeliered salons of what had once been a "gentlemen's club of ill repute" not far from London last week, and talked about the good old days. The high command of the Salvation Army was meeting for a 16-day special session at its Sunbury on Thames training center, and the agenda before it was privately described by the commissioners as a "crisis." For sinners are not what they used to be-and the Army...
...Jordan meets other Phoenix Islanders, she begins to feel that only the sun, sea and sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete...