Word: softener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of picketing or other devices, I shall be pushed from the rock where I must stand to render an independent judgment, my justification in public life will come to an end." Although he is expected to end up supporting the overall bill, he would like to soften its public accommodations section by making compliance voluntary for a one-or two-year trial period. He also thinks the bill's equal-employment provisions need changes. And in his present strategic position, he may very well be able to force the Democratic
Among Fidel Castro's top lieutenants, none is more outspoken than Che Guevara, the Argentine Marxist who now serves as Cuba's Minister of Industry. Che, in fact, is so painfully frank that Castro has several times told him to soften his speeches. But Che keeps on talking. "We don't make little white ponies here," he says. "We've got little white elephants in Cuba." On Havana TV last week, in a remarkable confession of economic failure, Che paraded the elephants in full view...
Except for this overdone portrayal, the characterizations are penetrating. Mark Bramhall's movements and changes of tone demonstrate Dick Dudgeon's energetic honesty. His smile is perfect: it can soften into kindness, flash a satiric comment on his own words, or reveal a spirited man who impetuously offers to sacrifice his life. Micheal Ehrhardt plays General Burgoyne, a character whose ability to mock an absurd situation resembles Dick's; he is impressive in his dignity, biting in his wit. Even Pamela Harris's opening gesture foreshadows the careful details of her performance: she awakens, and consciously assumes her dour, self...
...Harvard Review's issue on consciousness-expanding drugs turned out to be a veritable gold mine, as the Review spread as far as the opium dens of Hong Kong. Anything following was bound to be something of an anti-climax, although the editors tried to soften the anticipated thud by focusing on Communist China, a topic fascinating in its own right. Yet the fall-winter edition of the Review is disappointing even by pre-drug issue standards...
...sees in his great pupil "a body of very beautiful and tender and expressive lines" and a soul of "great content." Beyond that, he has to struggle to praise her enough. "She is a lyric-dramatic dancer," he says, searching for words. "When I speak of lyric-dramatic, I soften the contours of lyric by adding dramatic and soften the contours of dramatic by adding lyric. But in this instance I wouldn't want them softened...