Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, dating from the early Middle Ages, Ariès calls "the tame death," a calm acceptance of the end of life. He notes that in the Song of Roland and the Arthurian legends, heroes had premonitions of their deaths. In the final hour they prepared themselves with a simple, dignified ritual that reflected a world made whole by faith, community and a sense of common destiny. To die was to enter a long sleep until the day of resurrection...
...next transformations in death-style take place in the drawing rooms of the 19th century bourgeois family. Where once death aroused a pathos shared by a whole community, now the sense of privacy dominated thought and feeling. "Death," writes Ariès, "was no longer familiar and tame, as in traditional societies, but neither was it absolutely wild. It had become moving and beautiful like nature." Heaven, in turn, became a future home where one would be reunited with the dearly departed...
...President Reagan's first press conference last week, the normally obstreperous pack was suddenly tame...
...drama on-field has been tame compared with Davis' off-field actions. He tried to shift his franchise last spring to the more commodious Los Angeles Coliseum, but N.F.L. owners refused to ap prove the move. Angry at being spurned after ten straight years of sell-out crowds, Oakland and then the N.F.L. sued in state court to make the Raiders stay and play by the bay. The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission and the Raiders then sued the N.F.L. in federal court for the right to take flight in the night...
...women were engulfed by natives who threatened to stone their Egyptian women rivals if they lost and police were called in to tame the unruly crowd...