Word: softens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Love Yourself" Less fascinating than these witty, horrific, social criticisms-bleak Utopias all-but often more convincing and moving, are Vonnegut's stories on contemporary themes. They concern, among others, a half-Negro war orphan searching for his father, and a dedicated music teacher trying to soften the heart of a hardened juvenile delinquent. These tales forcibly demonstrate humanity at its best-people trying to cope with the painful present instead of escaping into an anesthetized future...
...Pope's stern no, while not unexpected, is nonetheless a massive blow to liberals in the Roman Catholic Church, and to Catholics in general who had entertained hopes that Paul would somehow find a way at least to soften the church's proscription. It is bound to have wide-reaching effects. It will almost certainly cause confusion and dissension in the church, particularly among the young and among the now disillusioned liberals, both laymen and clerics. Most important of all, it will inevitably increase doubts among many Catholics about their church's ability to keep abreast...
...ascension to the formal post of Attorney General--and the more informal one of chief advisor and troubleshooter for the President of the United States--seemed to soften his much-heralded rough edges...
...Draconian step, with profound, probably unforeseen, implications for the nation's educational system; many academic leaders expected the Johnson Administration to soften it. Last week, however, the Administration not only reaffirmed the no-deferment rule for graduate students (those already in their second year or beyond would not be affected), but also wiped out automatic occupational exemptions for some 340,000 professional men in such areas as teaching and various technical services...
Watering the Gravy. Yet neither cynics quick to ascribe political motives to Kennedy's one-man investigation nor the little girl who thrust a scrawled note into his hand pleading "Bobby, please run for President" could soften the facts of east Kentucky's poverty or blot out the reality of Appalachia's misery statistics. Some 5,000 of Wolfe County's 6,500 people exist beneath the poverty line, able to afford little more than a dime for each meal; federal food stamps account for half or more of the mountaineers' victuals. "Whenever...