Word: diminished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the time that Jefferson becomes champion, he appears to threaten and diminish the white world, in and out of boxing. Corrupt promoters begin scurrying around for a "great white hope" to restore racial supremacy. Full of arrogant self-regard and a casual contempt for blacks as well as whites, Jefferson all too easily stokes the hostility of his foes...
...Taming of the Shrew, starring the Burtons, Zeffirelli dazzles the eye with a virtuoso use of color. His camera is a Renaissance palette. Courtiers stride by in the muted gold and crimsons of Piero della Francesca; cobblestones and horsemen diminish into the serene infinities of Uccello. Visually, Shakespeare has never been better realized-and seldom has he had so sensitive a collaborator...
Humphrey is in trouble on the issue partly because his stand is not responsive to many whites' fears of the Negro; but more importantly because even well-meaning whites have become deeply skeptical about the liberal proposition that social and economic improvements necessarily diminish crime...
...feel my role is that of a spiritual counselor to men of all parties," Graham insists, "and the moment I start getting involved in partisan politics, it would greatly diminish my ministry." But if he ever does switch to political crusades, his views would resemble those of his friend the candidate. Like Nixon, Graham considers that the Supreme Court has "gone too far" in favoring criminals. He supports Black Power, but only if it means "a feeling of self-respect," not violence or civil disobedience. He believes that the demonstrators at the Democratic Convention in Chicago (where he also gave...
...Harvard policy calls for housing undergraduates on campus and a new House is now being constructed to accommodate 400 more students. (The convention had asked Harvard to house its students and faculty so as not to diminish low-income housing in the City...