Word: tamely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years since that single came out, The Who has lost none of its power. Townshend may have refined the song musically, shaped the message a little more deftly, as in Won't Get Fooled Again, but the spirit remains the same and just as impossible to tame. That spirit turns Won't Get Fooled Again into rock's best and most furious political manifesto. Its sardonic observations on the bicameral process ("The parting on the left/ Is now the parting on the right") and the bitter truth of its conclusion ("Meet the new boss/ Same as the old boss") make...
...second character to enter is a ner'd (Drew Weinstein)--also not in the Aristophanes version--who says he's going to close the show, he simply cannot permit it to be performed on a stage at Harvard. Why? Who is this cliched creature anyway, and what in this tame, already-too-long play could he possibly be objecting to, except for its poor blocking, missed cues and amateurish deliveries? Your interests are piqued; you figure the play will get more bawdy as the evening goes on. It doesn...
PARENTS DON'T PILE their kids into the backs of station wagons any more. Too bad, because this Mikado is the perfect incentive. Pack them in, trundle them over to the Radcliffe Yard, and they'll stay tame and happily out of everyone's way for the better part of the afternoon. What's more, you might enjoy...
Three and a half minutes later, scrappy Penn put up seven points and looked like it might turn the tame around. A Marzione-to-Montesanti three-yd. pass opened the fourth quarter with a third Quaker TD and closed the gap to 34-20. Penn failing on a two-point try. Two and a half minutes later, though, a wild Marzione lateral rolled through the arms of ten players before DeBello pounced on it and gave Harvard possession at the Penn...
...head of the opposition New Democratic Party. Kim incurred Park's wrath by defying a 1975 decree against criticizing the government. The opposition leader publicly called Park's regime "basically dictatorial" and urged the U.S. to "pressure" Park into granting long-denied human rights. Park ordered his tame majority in the 231 -member National Assembly to expel Kim. Overnight, the 69 other opposition members angrily resigned from the assembly in protest...