Word: softener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lewis' second semester begins, he would do well to keep in mind the wishes of his primary constituency--his students--more than he has [in the fall] semester, although not to the detriment of decisions he believes crucial to the sound future of the College. And he should soften the edges of his terse communiques, termed brusque and blunt by many who have had frequent contact with...
...irrelevant for our learned discourse: that the honors for which we sell our souls are Faustian purchases, that the study carrels in which we spend January and May are lonelier than coffins, that the competitiveness here is a posture whose graceless stiffness no conversation with a tutor could soften. We have all become hunchbacks before our time and we have only ourselves and each other to blame for the burden, but that does not make it any less real. We know these things, we know that Harvard is sick and, not for the first time, turning to UHS and Harvard...
...Lewis's second semester begins, he would do well to keep in mind the wishes of his primary constituency--his students--more than he has this past semester, although not to the detriment of decisions he believes crucial to the sound future of the College. And he should soften the edges of his terse communiques, termed brusque and blunt by many who have had frequent contact with...
...really hurt children if we're not careful," he says. "We can't do that. I won't let it happen." And indeed the most severe of the so-called reforms in the House's version of the welfare bill have been tempered simply because Dole has managed to soften them...
...been lost on the Clinton White House that the Bush-era recession and frail recovery were blamed on rate hikes engineered by Greenspan. In the next nine months, Clinton must decide whether to appoint him to a third consecutive term as chairman. Greenspan might like that. Enough to soften his reluctance to reduce rates? If not, there are others on the Fed who are less reluctant. "I don't think there is going to be a recession,'' says vice chairman Alan Blinder, a Clinton nominee who thinks job creation is as important a mandate as Greenspan's focus on inflation...