Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left of Baldwin's piece is a travel ad for Nassau and the Bahamas. An elegant white couple are standing in a well-manicured garden, near a tame sea: "where the islands are dressed to the nines." The reader of the advertisement is assured that "International night owls fill the Bahamas with merriment. VIPs from Europe and America make this their watering place. Wits and Beauties. Princes and tycoons. No velvet rope ever enclosed a more glittering assemblage...
...generalize from this instance, it is of first importance that as many men as possible graduate with sparkle and sense of victory. They will need a running start for future hills, and it is no service to them to send them out in a state of tame grayness. All need not win Rhodes Scholarships, but there are many peaks of esteem and accomplishment, even the accomplishment of having at the last seen the initially alien college of your freshman year in something like its full iridescence. We should not produce merely qualified but lively and resilient graduates...
...United States will enter a small room. For two hours a machine will play with his emotions. He may groan, but he will not be physically hurt. If he is disappointed when he leaves, he will at least emerge into a world where his job seems relatively tame, for he will have seen Doctor No, the first attempt to approximate on film the cosmic bravery, stupefying virility, six-acre brain, and deathproof nonchalance of Secret Agent James Bond-the President's favorite fictional hero, and Writer Ian Fleming's generous gift to literature...
Jumble of Sheiks. The British rule Aden, the majority of whose people are immigrants from neighboring Yemen, through a tame Legislative Council. During the 123 years they have held Aden, the British have gradually extended their influence inland by establishing a protectorate over a jumble of sheiks, emirs and sultans ruling such unlikely states as Lahej, Qishn, Upper Aulaqi and Lower Yafa. Submission was all that Britain required: not until recently did the British build schools or roads throughout the 112,000 sq. mi. of the protectorate...
...this point. Guns of Darkness is just one more tropicalamity with a sounds-great-if-you-don't-think-about-it title, tame performances by all concerned, and direction (by Britain's Anthony Asquith) that does nothing to set the tame on fire. But from this point forward, thanks principally to an intricately reflective script by a young British playwright named John Mortimer, the film rapidly matures into a philosophical thriller of startling moral insight...