Word: tame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, Brzezinski's book is a far richer resource for historians than previously published accounts of the Carter period by Hamilton Jordan and Jimmy Carter himself. Cyrus Vance's Hard Choices, to be published June 17, is reported to be rather tame and gentlemanly...
Washington has pledged to tame the machine and to reform its "patronage army" of city workers. But the long-excluded Blacks of Chicago's slum-ridden South Side who showed up 15,000 strong at his victory party, didn't discuss the merit system...
...life becomes increasingly fictional in middle age. I find There's no longer a great difference between real life and fiction. But that's a feature of our age generally, don't you think Fiction seems tame compared with reality, and people's reality is so fantastic it seems like fiction...
...that case, Thomas' fiction does not fit the mold, for it enhances reality, brings it alarmingly close. His fiction is never tame, perhaps because it is essentially poetry, and powerful poetry at that--poetry brought under the control of a prose form...
...much atrophied. Primitive man stood in still wonder in the presence of the seamless order of the elements and took violent fissures of that order as omens of supernatural wrath. Today such disasters are rationalized as freakish accidents, not as shattering revelations of immutable forces that man may never tame...