Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bred generation of the sixties, space travel was Star Trek. The space walks and moon landings were pretty tame stuff compared to the phaser-blasting antics of Captain Kirk and his cosmic crew. Apollo was a warm-up, a boring story for adults who couldn't handle the real drama of rampaging Romulans and galaxy-sized amoebas...
...unclear what role Peter Bonventre played in helping Cosell write I Never Played the Game. Bonventre, now a producer on Cosell's Sportsbeat has been a writer and editor at the New York Times and Newsweek magazine, but he certainly hasn't managed to tame Cosell's over-exuberant portrayal of himself...
...promotion hasn't been exactly tame: horses, helicopters, even parachutists descending from the skies onto the banks of the Thames with bottles of Beaujolais lashed to their plummeting bodies. A well-greased media lap it up every time...
...persuasion is one of the most glorious gifts that God can give us," McClintic writes, "but it says in James, 'The tongue is a very unruly member.' (A more expansive thought along that track from the King James version of the Bible is 'but the tongue no man can tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.') I abused this gift in a world of loose morals and loose living. I could stimulate or excite other men into becoming part of different programs or buying various products. When it came to communicating the importance of an idea...
...Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, is a longtime student of various therapies and how they work. His definition of madness is tamer than it sounds. He uses the word to indicate the inner turmoil and contradictions that are present in everyone. But his conclusion is anything but tame: the average consumer of therapy is likely to be influenced, and perhaps overwhelmed, by the emotional problems of therapists. The bad news is that many patients are more damaged by their therapists than they realize, and some actually end up seeking out one disturbed therapist after another. The good news...