Word: mellowed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...participate in the 12-College Exchange, of which Wellesley is a member. "Because Wellesley is single-sex and so isolated, everyone wants to get away at one time or another," says Jordan, who will probably spend next year at the University of California at Berkeley. "Wellesley is too mellow for me; I miss the 'real' college atmosphere of frats, football games and parties," she says...
Zhao supports the current leadership and predicts that state power will "mellow in time." But he does not believe that economic decentralization means, as many observers have said, that China will become a "capitalist" nation, with increasingly democratic tendencies. Like most nations, he believes, China will develop a mixed system. Economic improvements will raise the standard of living, which in turn will spur people to ask for greater freedom. In his own field, he notes that "in the past, either you towed the party line and wrote about, things you didn't want to write about, or you didn...
...camera zeroes in on Simon's face for minutes at a time as he is sweating on stage, crying in the arms of his estranged wife, shaving, rolling a joint, driving, taking a bath (twice), and reflecting (countless times) with mellow but righteous indignation on the sorry state of the society that will not buy his bland music. The concentration of the camera and the script on Simon would be fine if he portrayed an interesting or at least three-dimensional character, but Jonah Levin is neither, and his colorless professional and domestic problems complement the monotonous musical score...
Sensing their renewed title hopes and leading 21-0 at halftime, the gridders appeared to lose interest in the matters at hand--and so did the crowd. Its collective attention moved to the Harvard cheerleaders, who were flinging themselves about in a display of "pep" almost unprecedented in these mellow parts. The entire Harvard side of the Stadium rose to watch the cheerleaders flip, flop, and otherwise abuse, a member of the Harvard Band. Good thing, too, because on the field, Buckley had thrown his fourth (and second-to-last) interception, and the Harvard gridders were sleepwalking...
...Nathaniel Hawthorne remains an elusive figure, difficult to describe and even harder to understand. Intensely private and somewhat reclusive from his earliest years, Hawthorne concealed his own personality as successfully as many of the veiled characters in his stories. He is a difficult subject for any biographer, and Mellow deserves credit for his prodigious research; but after all that labor, the enigma of Hawthorne remains just as impenetrable...