Word: tame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wandered, listless, oh so tame...
This year's debate over whether the council should serve as social engineer has been tame compared to the bitter battle last year over whether the council should take political stances...
Almost at the End demonstrates why. A collection of prose and poetry, the book is nicely timed with the reappearance of Yevtushenko, 53, as a prominent spokesman for Gorbachev's liberalization campaign. The new work is theatrical but tame. The targets are either old monsters or the class of unreconstructed bureaucrats whom the new regime has pledged to replace. The daring urgency of earlier poems, such as The Heirs of Stalin and Babi Yar, has given way to all- purpose indictments of totalitarianism and effusions of universality. "I ; would like to be born in every country,/ have a passport...
...villa's social calendar is tame in comparison to Bernard Berenson's time, when I Tatti was the focus of the literati set, says Agnes Mongan, the former director of the Fogg Art Museum and curator of prints emeritus...
...SPEECH Coors delivered--while occasionally offensive--was really pretty tame, as the Conservative Club no doubt anticipated. But Coors came to Harvard with the reputation, deserved or not, of a racist who disregards the rights of his employees. It was his presence that motivated the protest outside the Science Center, and that was what the "speech," from the point of view of its organizers, was all about...