Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles west of the Persian Gulf. Under Cambyses, the Persians were a peaceable lot. They kept few slaves, dutifully paid tribute to Astyages the Spear Thrower. King of the Medes, and lived by five things: "The seed grain, the tools that plant it, the water that gives growth, the tame animals that cultivate it, and the human labor that garners its harvest...
...year-old plumber over the sudden death of his wife is the unlikely subject of this remarkably skillful first novel. With telling economy, Author Wallant suggests the climate of a marriage, the texture of sorrow without sentimentality and the twisting agony of an agnostic Job who cannot tame his rage with resignation...
...They are: certain censure at the midmonth meeting of the Organization of American States for his attempted assassination of Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, Washington's feeling that he is an embarrassing anachronism, disapproval from the Roman Catholic Church and opposition from the formerly tame middle and upper classes. If necessary, he can retreat further to the safety of the U.N. corridors in Manhattan. If at that point prudence indicates that the chief Dominican Republic delegate better not go back home, he will have got out alive, safe and rich...
Unlike most suffering dwellers in the new ziggurats of Manhattan, the Washington Square Villagers rebelled, formed a Tenants Association (324 members) to struggle with the management. But the association proved to be too tame for Fran Weiss and some other angry tenants, who split off into a "Faction for Action." Artistic tenants contributed cartoons (see cut) to the cause. Last week the Tenants Association was quarreling with the Faction for Action, the Faction for Action was making plans to sue the management, and the management was advertising that "the flowers are blooming, the fountains are spouting. New Yorkers are renting...
...nine years as chancellor of the University of Chicago, Lawrence A. Kimpton, 49, has had to tame a particularly unruly section of the Midwest. He has hacked down slums that were hemming in Chicago's campus, trimmed overblown courses that were smothering the curriculum. Last week he announced his resignation because he felt he had at last put Chicago in order...