Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compared to some of the atomic devices that the Russians have exploded since Sept. 1, the low-yield (probably not more than one kiloton) U.S. test seemed as tame as a firecracker. But it carried the U.S. a step forward in its tactical weapons development. And unlike Russia's atmospheric explosions-which have scattered radioactive debris from far beyond its borders-the U.S. test caused not a particle of fallout...
...Imprisoned Self. What happens when the mood fails is sadly apparent in Clock Without Hands, a novel without direction or much visible point except as a tame foray into race relations. Novelist McCullers drops story threads and conies close to losing the entire narrative spool. A major character is suddenly reduced to a bit part. Motivations are inept and mystifying. Her people are all of a piece or all in pieces. What redeems some of these flaws is the special McCullers gift, the moment of high emotion when a lonely soul rapping on the wall of his imprisoned self hears...
...Algiers as head of state, they argued, his personal popularity might prevent fulfillment of their ''revolutionary aims." Among them is the liquidation of rich Moslem landowners, and there seems to be no place in Khedda's Algeria for the European minority of one million, except as tame technicians of the Algerian "revolution...
...Oedipus "who arrives at the extraordinary insight that his marriage to Jocasta was evil because it drew him back to his childhood and thus prevented the free development of his personality." White forgoing these lapses of taste, T. S. Eliot merely domesticates the Greek myths till they are as tame as Old Possum's pet cals...
Obviously this is not the Mucky Spleen (Pogo's phrase for him) of old. The hero -not Mike Hammer but a creep named "Deep" for short and "Old Deep the Cannon Boy" for long-is splattering a man. Hammer seldom bothered with anything so tame; he ka-powed naked blondes in the stomach with his blue-glinting .45. Such parlor pleasantries accounted for the sale of 32 million paperback copies of Spillane's seven previous titles. The new boy, a hardrock who shows up to take over his neighborhood gang after 25 years of mysterious absence, will never...