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...Jesuit Gimmick. Heroine of the play is a guardian angel just released from the heroic job of keeping a movie queen out of hell. "Love was a game," she sings of her former charge. "Men were so tame/ Like Nashua she ran every race./Though in her prime She lost every time./ But she died in the state of grace...
...bunk with a psychosomatic sort of fever. There, Su-ling, almond-eyed wife of the junk owner, feeds him broths plus the harsh poetic lore of the "Ten-Thousand Mile River." Once well, the engineer excitedly spills hints of his company's plan to harness the river, tame its power, eliminate the backbreaking tasks of the trackers. Su-ling is horrified at the American's impiety in even thinking of tampering with the sacred Great River, and begs him to breathe no word of it to Old Pebble...
...Hunch. Politicians bestow their brightest smiles on the TV camera, and prefer separate conferences on TV, which affords them not only direct contact with the voter but tame, often planted, questions. When TV shares a general news conference, says New York Times Midwest Correspondent Richard Johnston, the session turns from "an attempt to get at the real news into staged nonsense." Apart from crowding, heat and noise, experienced newsmen bristle at TV's vapid questions, often designed only to get a commentator into...
Although Princeton University was rigged for trouble, the campus appearance of Alger Hiss, convicted perjurer and disbarred lawyer, in his first public speech since his release from the Lewisburg federal pen in 1954, turned out to be tame and dull. Protesters that morning had tried to warm Hiss's reception by decking the campus with some 100 papier-mâché pumpkins containing photographs of a Woodstock typewriter and microfilm, reminiscent of the pumpkin papers and other evidence that convicted him. Dawn also unveiled three signs protesting "Traitor" in foot-high red letters. But ex-State Department Employee...
...some circles religion has become an opiate of the people. Present day Christianity is to many people tame and prosaic, prim and dull ... Too many of us have lost Christ's call to heroism and have grown comfortable and commonplace, small in our minds and imaginations. The Christian church has become too much an ambulance, dragging along behind, picking up the wounded, making bandages, and soothing hurt feelings, when the church should be out on the front line, getting hit in the face, but leading others and conquering the enemy...