Less historically detailed than, say, "John Adams" and more educationally subdued than any "History" production, "Turn" has nonetheless the regrettable whiff of both the lecture hall and the bully pulpit.
But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.
Even traditional fanmail has historically been hard to keep up with, and the volume of that medium is naturally subdued by the effort associated with pens, paper, stamps and postboxes.
Historically, projects had been shaped by two main factors: the Army Corps of Engineers' conviction that nature can be subdued by levees and dams, and its reflexive green-lighting of any flood control project that encouraged commercial or agricultural development.
"Long-term interest rates should still stay at historically low levels, after rising slightly with monetary tightening, due to still low short-term interest rates, subdued inflationary pressures, elevated size of the Fed's balance sheet, continued strong demand for safe assets, low long-term interest rates in overseas advanced economies and quantitative easing in the eurozone and Japan".
Sarcastic, conversational, honest, subdued.
