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Meanwhile, the rest of the family fiddle at their own futilities. Pierre's wife has a tepid flirtation; Mama Lasquin is pleasantly excited to discover that the departed Papa Lasquin has had a mistress; Papa's brother-in-law appropriates the mistress...
...village elders, dressed in black gowns over white robes, advanced in greeting, preceded by the ly-truong, or village chief. We sat around a rectangular table and drank hot tea and tepid beer. A sharp-nosed, black-eyed young man called Nguyen Van Tin explained about the Anti-Communist Youth League, which he had founded last fall...
...Roman Catholic writers as J. F. Powers (Prince of Darkness) and Harry Sylvester (All Your Idols), who portray this kind of priest so movingly that their work is a rebuke to a popular bestseller theory, i.e., that the life of renunciation is jolly as a clambake, soothing as a tepid bath...
Because of Canada's traditionally mild manners in world affairs, foreign-policy debates in Parliament have often seemed stale and tepid. Last week's scheduled debate gave no special promise of being any exception. Less than 48 hours before he was to lead off the discussion, Lester ("Mike") Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, was still in New York, at the United Nations meeting. On his way back to Ottawa he stopped off for the opening of Toronto's Royal Winter Fair. He came into Ottawa on a morning train, having written part of his speech...
Stalin was the one important Bolshevik who was not an intellectual, a fact which seems to have filled him with poisonous envy. The other leaders had reputations as brilliant writers and orators, he began as a clumsy writer and tepid speaker. But he thought of himself as a man of the people (his parents had been serfs) and a practical organizer who would transform the intellectuals' fantasies into reality. He concentrated on building a personal political machine-first in the underground and then in the Soviet state. In the end, he liquidated the intellectuals. Deutscher sees this...