Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difference between the tantrum-tossing Piersall of 1960 and today's tame Indian is crotchety, dry-witted Manager Jimmie Dykes, 64, who came to the Indians last year in a mid-season managerial swap that sent Joe Gordon to Detroit. Says Indian General Manager Gabe Paul: "You can't ever expect Pier-sail to be a Little Lord Fauntleroy. He has his moments. But with Dykes around, he's under control at all times...
Descending Ax. After this lively upbringing. Eastern prep schools-Hotchkiss for John and Lawrenceville for Clint Jr. -had something to teach, but seemed rather tame. "It's a great shock for a Texas boy to go to an Eastern school,'' says John. "The Eastern boys were more formal, more rigid in their habits. Down in Texas you start driving a car earlier, running around with girls earlier.'' John went on to Yale, Clint Jr. to M.I.T. John admits that, except for bistros and girls, his freshman year at New Haven was "pretty much...
...basic axioms of "objectivism" as Miss Rand aptly calls her new philosophy, are sufficiently tame; it is only when she builds on these and divides all men into two pat categories--those who fear and those who accept reality--that her system becomes interesting. Of the "fearing" man Miss Rand's two archetypes are Attila and the Witch Doctor: "the man of muscle and the man of feelings, both seeking to exist without mind." Against these symbols of faith-and-force she pits the Producer: "any man who works, and knows what he's doing...
...person remarked, she seemed to be playing a typewriter, not a piano. Her tone never went beyond initial attack, either to poetry or bravado; it thus made the lonely melody of the second movement stilted and the jazzy exuberance of the third tame. The orchestra (particularly the winds) had more life to it. But even it unlimbered its power only in a few spots. The performance left me cold indeed...
...less knowledge, much less creativity, much less moral fiber than we would have had if our educational process had been more rigorous." McMurrin set his goal as "quality and rigor in teaching"-strong talk for the Office of Education, which for most of its 94 years has been a tame source of statistics rather than of standards...