Word: softener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief difference between writing criticism for TIME and for other publications, he believes, springs from the anonymity of the writer. "In a signed review," he says, "the personal intrusions soften the tone. Everything in TIME is sharper and more emphatic." Even so, he says, every critic is human, and brings to the theater his own preferences and dislikes. Some don't like mystery stories, for instance. Kronenberger does. But he dislikes "what is sometimes called 'theater'-the spectacle with no meat on its bones. Generally speaking, the important thing in a play is what you hear...
Tuesday. The "half-educated boys" began to suspect that they had gone too far, agreed to soften the pledge by adding a proviso that, "for this convention only," it would not be binding if it interfered with state laws. But Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana still refused to sign...
Justice William O. Douglas tried to soften the blow by noting that "today a kindly President uses the seizure power," but another sort of President could misuse it "to regiment labor as oppressively as industry thinks it has been regimented by this seizure...
Supersonic aircraft now on the drawing boards will soon be moving at more than 1,500 m.p.h. At such high speed, say aeronautical engineers, friction between air and airplane will build a wall of heat-a "thermal barrier"-that will grow worse as planes fly faster. Their metal may soften like the wax in the wings of Icarus when he flew too near...
...Even the air at the icy regions of 40,000 ft. does not help the engineer with his problem," says Rice. "At the speeds contemplated for the future, aluminum will relax and lose much of its strength. Canopies of today's materials will soften like putty and pull from their foundations. Radar equipment may give the wrong message . . . And the pilot would simmer like beef stew without refrigeration...