Word: tepidity
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Presciently modern, Ibsen foresaw that collectivized man would make egocentric quests for identity and searches for self. Peer's quest for self-definition becomes a tale of tepid damnation. The suave, cynical Peer of Part II (played with acute perceptivity by Gerry Bamman) defines himself by what he does and not by what he is. And what he does is always tainted by easy accommodation and the habit of incessant compromise. He moves from trading slaves out of Charleston, S.C., and shipping pagan idols to China to reigning as a prophet in the Moroccan desert, finally ending up crowned...
...Caesar and Your Show of Shows is, of course, purely intentional, and in many other ways the film strives to capture the innocent heyday of live TV. My Favorite Year succeeds in this respect, but except for O'Toole's manic star turn, remains at heart a tepid movie...
...grape juice in plastic champagne glasses. But after the senate vote, more militant feminists dropped plastic bags filled with animal blood outside the capitol and scrawled the names of prominent ERA opponents in the fluid. Nine women were arrested and led away in handcuffs. Republican Governor James Thompson, whose tepid support of the ERA angered proponents, termed the blood smearing "vile and disgusting" and likened it to "painting swastikas on synagogues...
...aspirin and Reye's," admits Dr. M. Harry Jennison, director of the A.A.P. But, he points out, "aspirin is probably overused in general. You really don't have to jump on a fever with any drug very quickly." As an alternative, the academy suggests that parents use tepid sponge baths to reduce fevers...
...have recently been fed a few abject lessons in forced apology. The Harvard Corporation, embarrassed by the consequences of its divestiture of holding in banks which make direct loans to the repressive regime in South Africa, issued an apology to the business community and tried to pay it's tepid symbol of opposition to apartheid. Pressed by students, the Corporation held back its policy change--but only temporarily. If history is an accurate indicator...