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Word: tepidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...model of Victorian decorum and devotion ("Never, never did I think I could be loved so much"). Their engagement was long and set about with squabbles over precedence and income that Victoria, as was her custom, eventually resolved with regal finality. Albert seems to have been sexually tepid, as Victoria apparently was not. His priggishness and diffidence, however, were compensated for by his immense marital devotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reginal Politics | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

...Inspecter General. The Harvard Dramatic Club's latest offering has John Rudman imperanating the Inspector General and other actors impersonating the cast of Nikolai Gogol's 19th century satire on the bureaucratic life of czarist Russia. While director George Hamlin`s tepid orchestration keeps the production off-key, the general competence makes it at least hummable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 11/16/1972 | See Source »

...Iced Cucumber Soup ($.50 small; .90 large) was tepid, and had an unusual but forgettable taste. The Ratatouille, filling for Omlettes ($1.75) or Crepes ($2.25) was a mockup of zuchinni and tomato paste...

Author: By Robert D. Luskin and Tina Rathborne, S | Title: Fair Find, Middling French | 7/7/1972 | See Source »

...company of which Harvard was a major stockholder and of which Harvard treasurer George Bennett sat on the Board of Directors. More vexing problems arose with the first Campaign GM in 1970, when the University was faced with several dissident proxy items to vote for or against. After some tepid debate in the community about these confusing new issues, the Corporation voted with management, saying that "In our view, the Board of Directors and not the stockholders of a corporation constitute the proper body for the determination of difficult questions of allocation of resources." Similar movements last year among...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Profit Without Honor | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

After a rather tepid Krazy Kat cartoon and a razzle-dazzle rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that shouldn't be missed--technicolor psychedelics, sing-along sub-titles, and a flag with the wrong number of stars--we arrive in the Big City, which is probably Los Angeles but could be anyplace. Here the Tramp criss-crosses paths with the beautiful girl and the eccentric millionaire. She thinks that Chaplin must be wealthy as well as kind--after all, she's heard him getting out of a limousine. Smitten by love, he can't bring himself to explain that...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: Silent Laughter and Melancholy | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

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