Word: taming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame and confined in terms of things natural, wild and free...
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...find either happiness or justice, God ultimately passes his own judgment on their plight. Days of Heaven climaxes with a cleansing, Old Testament plague of locusts-a nighttime Apocalypse so damning that it makes the similar finale of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust seem tame by comparison...
Through no fault of the author, Coucy as a result sounds a bit like a modern corporation president as seen by a tame biographer on the company payroll. On balance, however, her choice of Coucy is a good one. Her choice of the 14th century is brilliant, and her portrait of the period is exciting, artful and solidly based in scholarship. - John Skow
...promotes a "tug of peace," in which children are arrayed not in two teams pulling against each other at opposite ends of a single rope, but hauling at various ropes to form stars, triangles and other designs. Orlick has even invented a cooperative version of musical chairs and a tame version of the board game Monopoly, called Community. Says Orlick: "We've become fixated on numerical outcomes of games...