Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which found five years long enough for Oklahoma!, those 18 years seemed either a miracle or a misprint. Not that the idea of the play-which inverts a copybook moral-isn't amusing enough. Henry Dewlip begins as a rakish, well-adjusted bachelor, is misled into sowing his tame oats, and then happily restored to rakishness...
...back home. A European friend explains the deep-inside part for him. "The American woman is a barbarian by comparison . . . She's a Roman next to a Greek. Forgive me, but you're a Roman too, with a Greek sensibility, and that's why you must tame your Roman woman before you'll be happy...
...faithful, masterminded by the Communist-front Congress of Civil Rights, descended on Richmond to establish a "vigil of prayer." The Communist calliope swung into high. The Union of Polish Youth cabled a demand for a "full pardon for the seven innocent Negro youths." Moscow trotted out its tame intellects. "In the name of justice and the sacred rights of man, we raise our wrathful voice in protest," said Shostakovich, Prokofiev & Co. The radio of the Chinese People's Government broadcast an appeal to stay "this barbaric sentence...
...Francisco, New York Philharmonic Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos explained why he did not bother to use a score when conducting:"Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on 'How to Tame a Lion...
...Cluttered & Tangled." To ex-Schoolmaster Whitman, U.S. education in the mid-19th Century was bogged down in "precedent, old times, and respectability," was "cluttered and tangled up with a thousand senseless notions and stupidities." Almost everywhere the whip was used "to crush and tame the mettlesome, soothe the feverish and nervous, reduce the spirits where they are too high, and transform impertinence and obstinacy to mildness and soft obedience." Schools had become "penitential purgatories," and teachers "identified with a dozen unpleasant . . . associations-a sour face, a whip, hard knuckles snapped on tender heads . . ." It was not only whips and sour...