Word: tepidity
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...while across the bay is Sea World, an aquarium aswarm with tourists and back-dropped by San Diego's busy Lindbergh International Field. Inside the camp's palisades, the pace is equally lively. Cars roll endlessly along the asphalt alleys while children splash in the tepid water...
...eyes open to the well-intentioned disaster that is her life, Jones allows her the stature and tragic privileges of a minor Jocasta. She is not only more to be pitied but more to be admired than her old friends, whose embrace of social justice is tepid with opportunism. It is also made evident that the doctrinaire liberals from the North are as blindly rigid...
...miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlom." Abandoned by his fair-weather friends and sunshine press agents, King did discover a way to get his message across and help lead black people, who had at best been tepid about the antiwar movement, into the protest. He reestablished his credibility with black people by going back on the streets of Chicago, and later, the backroads of Mississippi during the Meredith March, and retaking his position on the point...
...Tepid Reproach. Kűng's challenge could hardly be ignored. The Vatican's doctrinal congregation sent reactions of its member cardinals off to the German bishops, who questioned Kung, then issued a tepid public reproach several weeks ago. Kűng boasted that they had skirted condemnation, leaving the way open to further debate. In Italy, Pope Paul's most intimate theological adviser, Bishop Carlo Colombo of Milan, helped write a statement for the Italian hierarchy declaring that it is impossible to support or spread Kűng's views "without separating oneself from...
...Private Life is directed by one Billy Wilder, a Vi ennese. From such a man one has the right to expect either gothica, like Sun set Boulevard, or antic farce, such as Some Like It Hot. Instead, we are presented with what future critics will call "Some Like It Tepid," a listless ac count of ourselves v. the Kaiser's agents. Moreover, it portrays me as inept. A lady twists me 'round her finger." "Mmmmm...