Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...penetrate. Against their cool responses, interrogative reporting of the Mike Wallace-Dan Rather school seems out of season, overheated and hectoring. Reporters, themselves often on camera, vie with the candidates in not wishing to appear rash, partisan or unfair. This "good guy" attitude further tranquilized primaries that were emotionally tepid and intellectually thin...
...Neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor homosexuals ... will inherit the Kingdom of God," wrote St. Paul. That attitude has survived the centuries. Christians have been grudging in their acceptance of homosexuals in their congregations, if indeed they acknowledge them at all. This tepid welcome has not deterred gay activists from pressing for recognition and even for ordination, issues that sparked long debates at two recent national Protestant Church assemblies...
...party that currently most troubles Wilson is the Scottish Nationalists. Since the government's tepid proposals for "devolving" more power to the regions merely fanned the Scots' demands for more self-government, the Nationalists are still gaining support. If an election were held now, concedes a Wilson adviser, Labor would lose as many as 15 of its 41 Scottish seats to the Nationalists; the Scots would then hold the balance of power in Parliament...
...bestseller. It also may have harmed the author. The New York Times refused to run advertisements for the book. Many critics were angered and decided that Vidal had betrayed their earlier praise. During the next six years, his star declined. He published five more novels to a generally tepid recognition from reviewers and the public. His average income from each was about...
...Moynihan felt that the British attack was relished by his critics in Washington and Kissinger's first public defense of him - "I very much hope he stays, I consider him a good friend" - was symptomatic of tepid State Department support. Moynihan believes that in the U.N., the conflict is essentially between political philosophies, ind he feels U.S. career diplomats are often untrained for battle. They, Moynihan gibed cruelly in a recent speech, are likely to ask, "Marx...