Word: tame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least, the liberal academy should play that role. It seems that this liberal academy has failed to tame the barbarians. In fact, a few vocal Harvard students seem to think that their peers remain regenerate barbarians, resisting the most persistent efforts at (re)education...
Walter Rathenau called the great wave of humanity that is each generation "the vertical invasion of the barbarians." Every 20 years or so, an entire generation arrives on the Earth, uncivil and uneducated. The job of society (that is, of any society that wants to recreate itself) is to tame those barbarians...
...warning: pun ahead) is for cunning linguistics. Time after time, he has eluded foes and critics by means of clever verbal games. When is smoking pot not smoking pot? Clinton had an answer for this paradox. And according to one of the Arkansas state troopers involved in the suddenly tame-seeming Troopergate scandal, Clinton can answer an even harder one: When is fooling around on your wife permissible under the Ten Commandments? He told me, the trooper recalled in the American Spectator, that he had researched the subject in the Bible and oral sex was not adultery...
...thoroughly enjoyed Hunter Thompson's story about his adventures driving up the California coast [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 10], even though he trashed my profession of astrology. What emerges in the piece is how the tenderness and love of a woman can tame the heart of even the most vulgar, nihilistic and wounded man as he realizes he's past his prime. Perhaps a competent spiritual astrologer could have validated Thompson's complex pathology 30 years ago. ROBERT P. BLASCHKE Nehalem...
Felix, who leads a tame existence churning out book after book about "frustrated middle-class lives," is unprepared to suddenly receive some vaguely threatening communications from Gavin, a shadowy character who introduces him to Miriam. Mirry avers that Felix fathered her son Ian a decade ago, and Felix, hard-pressed to disprove her case, is summarily presented with a bill for 20,000 pounds for Ian's keep from the Parental Rights and Obligations Department...