Word: tepidity
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Yale's Gold Dust Twins, Jim Stack in the 600 and Tommy Carroll in the 1000, both were soundly beaten, in a generally tepid night for the Blue...
...Kennedy parceled out his announcements of Cabinet appointments, he was greeted with a chorus of approbation. The New York Times, whose campaign endorsement of Kennedy had been singularly tepid, warmed to his appointees as the list lengthened: the choice of "Soapy" Williams was merely "good," but Dean Rusk's was "first-rate" and John J. McCloy's "splendid." The Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser took conservative Southern comfort in the new first team: "So far, the Advertiser couldn't be more comforted were Nixon the President-elect and making the Cabinet appointments. Which statement is a horse laugh...
...himself that the objections were serious but not fatal, and withheld Bobby's appointment till the last moment, while the public was told of other choices. Another trial balloon, Bill Fulbright as Secretary of State, was quickly shot down by Negro groups and Northern liberals who feared his tepid segregationist background. Negro Congressman William Dawson, 74, suggested as a possible Postmaster General, was never seriously considered as a candidate despite Dawson's announced refusal of the job and Kennedy's public regrets. But as a trial balloon, his consideration presumably won a smidgen of gratitude from some...
...Glee Club and the Yale Glee Club in Sanders Theatre. The first two-thirds of the concert, with one important exception, were pleasant enough, occasionally humorous, at times pedestrian, but not really very much for a reviewer to praise or condemn. Then, at about ten o'clock, after some tepid renditions of a couple of spirituals, the Yale Glee Club burst, not totally unexpectedly, into Harvardiana...
...present time and then simply drop them there on the last page-still sitting in grim, unhappy silence. The author promises a Shavian clash of right and left, Adam and Rib. and several times seems on the point of producing one. But he settles too easily for tepid psychologizing, of which Liere is a surfeit these days, rather than social satire, which is in short supply. What could have been a clever novel is. as it turns out. merely clever notes...