Word: softeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inconspicuous blob hidden behind steel-rimmed glasses and a steel-wool mustache. To blot out a world full of past and present horrors, Sol listlessly endures an affair with his best friend's widow. He spurns the friendship of a sympathetic social worker (Geraldine Fitzgerald), slowly begins to soften toward his troubled young Puerto Rican assistant (Jaime Sanchez), then crushes the boy by telling him: "You are nothing to me." In the tragic aftermath of that rejection, Nazerman's dead soul is awakened at least a little...
After a generation of working for other people's publications, Stone decided he'd been "carrying on a soliloquy inside a telephone booth." He tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print. He yearned for a job that wouldn't ask him to soften his view, to be a promoter or a salesman; a job in which he would be totally responsible for all his misdeeds. He longed to be a guerrilla warrior. But offering a "good left opposition" inside the New Deal was a thing of the remote past; by the Haunted Fifties, America's left hand...
...Hook. When the story first broke, the U.S. was inept in its efforts to soften criticism. The White House, for example, seemed more concerned about getting President Johnson off an uncomfortable hook than about producing an explanation. Press Secretary George Reedy took great pains to let it be known that the gas was first sent to South Viet Nam before Johnson became President, which is irrelevant, and that it was used without his knowledge, which is inexcusable...
...Polly, Catherine Winn makes her debut in Harvard drama, and she is a welcome addition. She possesses that rare combination of first-rate acting ability and a beautiful lyric soprano, and she knows how to balance the two. Her sweet, artless Polly could soften even the hardest highwayman's heart, and we easily understand Macheath's impetuous marriage vows...
...borrowers scramble for funds to finance expansion. In Australia, where the Sydney stock market suffered its sharpest fall in four years as a result of the curbs on dollars, Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies passed the word last week that he will ask Lyndon Johnson to soften the restrictions. Japanese businessmen, mindful that U.S. money has provided 10% of the financing for their postwar boom, also urged Washington to go easier...