Word: tame
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last month an ersatz congressional election was held in which the pro-government party, ARENA, won 70% of the 310 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. ARENA'S victory against tame, regime-approved opposition candidates was not surprising, but neither was it convincing. A terrorist plea for the casting of blank ballots as a protest gesture, meanwhile, was totally ignored. Brazil's 30 million voters seemed determined to turn thumbs down on the terrorists, if not quite thumbs up for the generals...
...short story. Then the story grew first into a novella and finally into an amorphous novel full of Lowry's preoccupations with alcohol, mythologems, cabalistic gewgaws and theosophist arcana. In 1957, two months before he died after a bout of heavy drinking, Lowry was still struggling to tame the surge of words and images...
Compared with such goings-on, events in the U.S. still seem relatively tame. But for a year or more, there have been almost daily attacks upon police, military facilities, corporations, universities and other symbols of the institutions that underpin U.S. society. Since the beginning of 1970, there have been nearly 3,000 bombings and more than 50,000 threats of planted bombs. At least 16 police officers have been slain in unprovoked attacks. In San Francisco last week, as some 400 friends, relatives and fellow policemen gathered for the funeral services of a patrolman who was shot to death during...
...supposed to be rugged, steely individuals battling the frontier for survival, then the match-up of pitcher and batter, catcher and base-runner, steely-eyed individuals all, is the nonviolent equivalent of the duel between sheriff and gunfighter. The language of sportswriting reflects the popular mythology well. Pitchers "tame" hitters, runners are cut down "stealing" bases, and a crucial is a "duel." But who can imagine a classic confrontation between an adulterous pitcher and a hung-over hitter? Or so the arguments against Bouton...
...object of Silva's and everybody else's affections was Martina Arroyo, as Elvira. Her acting, even by the standards of opera, was on the tame side. But she provided the kind of feathery high notes, creamy middle range and sheer power that have made her one of the Met's most reliable prima donnas...