Word: tepidity
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Most of the time, the Fleshtones do not take themselves too seriously, though on occasion Zaremba will launch into some sort of diatribe about the state of America. This is the Fleshtones at their worst, the tepid liberalism of 1981's "R-I-G-T-S"--off Roman Gods--or Hexbreaker's "New Scene": "Phony society, we reject your false values." Ho hum. "Get off my back. Let me do what I wanna do." So what...
...Mondale who first focused on the issue with a May 9 speech at Harvard University attacking Reagan's tepid reaction to the report...
...serious threat to Arafat's leadership. But it dramatized the weakened condition of the P.L.O. in the wake of its expulsion from Beirut last year by Israeli forces, particularly the organization's susceptibility to pressure from Syria and several other hard-line Arab countries. Despite a tepid rapprochement between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, Syria appears to be intent on controlling the P.L.O. and will not hesitate to try to undermine Arafat's authority in the process...
...climax of Clark's career, though not of his talents as a writer, came with Civilisation, the 13-part series that he wrote and narrated for the BBC in 1969. When Civilisation first appeared in England, the reviews were respectful, on the whole, but tepid. Among art historians, there was a good deal of scorn for its generalizations. Many television people thought it an oldfashioned, static affair, hobbled by Clark's unbudgeable penchant for writing scripts that were really slide lectures, with the narrator too much in view-"I am standing in front of the Cathedral...
Congressional reaction was tepid, and it split as much along regional as along partisan lines. Many Congressmen from states hit hardest by unemployment felt the package did not go far enough. "We have a national problem that requires a national solution," declared Democratic Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan, where the unemployment rate has exceeded 10% for the past 39 months. "The Administration's economic policies helped create the problem, and the Administration is obligated to help solve it." The proposal to lower the tax cap to $160 drew some hoots. "The Administration is making a terrible philosophical and political...