Word: tame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Could not Heart of Darkness be offset by Heart of Lightness, in which Marlow narrates how the kindly Mr. Kurtz dedicated himself voluntarily to training the tribes along the Nile in personal hygiene? Might not The Call of the Wild be counterbalanced by The Call of the Tame, in which a big, clumsy, good-natured dog named Buck goes on a tour of Hollywood homes, including Lassie's? Who could be offended if An American Tragedy spun off a happy shadow called An American Comedy, in which Clyde Griffiths saves his girlfriend Roberta from drowning and receives...
Unlike Uncle Tom's Cabin or The Jungle, bestsellers that affected their times, the fiction chartbusters of the '70s seem tame indeed. Their mission, and their success, lies in anesthetizing the audience until it has only enough energy to do one thing: turn the page. Sutherland notes that the top ten novels of the '70s sold twice as many copies as the top ten of the 1960s. In this thirsty epoch, more readers than ever seem to need their psychic spirits. -By J.D. Reed
...only partly right. There is no recorded case of a wolf in the wild ever attacking a human being. But there are cases of wolves in captivity attacking human beings.' I said: 'Of course I was talking about wolves in the wild. I would never use a tame wolf. Take a wild wolf, put it in there, and when the wolf becomes tame, you replace it. [The Greater Jamaica Chamber of Commerce is in stitches.] "Now what I am telling is a true story...
While the implications of Amparan's proposal are staggering, the plan itself is pretty tame-and quite simple. No cash ever changes hands. Instead, each month students are issued "privilege cards," which the graphic arts teacher prints up in his free time, using school equipment...
...explanation than primitives do for luck's strange intercessions, but they generally adopt a strategy both passive and fatalistic, a stoical mixture of rationalism and resignation to luck's works. Today it is mainly gamblers who stay on intimate and dangerous terms with luck and try to tame and possess it. Here and there, state lotteries have tried to bureaucratize luck-a dreary business and a contradiction in terms...