Word: banality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unwieldly sentiment in a tight and carefully plotted structure. The skillful shifting of the rhyme scheme, and its complete abandonment at one point, reinforce the progression of Mr. Holden's ideas; and the entire poem (to commit sacrilege upon a hallowed text) is an admirable illustration of how a banal thought may be garnished with the irregular combinations of fanciful invention, until the product may be read with greatest pleasures of sudden wonder...
Some critics believe that the success of Voyage, with its old-fashioned fantasy world, is further proof that France is getting tired of the often depressing, sometimes brutal "New Wave." Lamorisse concedes that he is against the trend toward "popular, banal tragedy," and his movies plainly seek escape from modern life in their concern with children and animals. Says he: "I'm happy to have been able to free cinema from earth...
...tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, weren't they?" Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique irritated him: "All of us have a stream of consciousness; we are never without it-the most ordinary and the most gifted. And through that stream flows much that is banal, tedious, nasty, insufferable, irrelevant. But some of us have the taste to let it flow by." After reading Lawrence of Arabia's translation of the Odyssey, Max, who pursued stylistic perfection like a grail, wrote: "I would rather not have been that translator than have driven the Turks...
...Banal Incident." For the U.N. the last straw came next day when Congolese troops spotted 14 Canadian servicemen in a plane about to leave Ndjili, decided that they, too, were Belgians. They knocked the Canadians to the ground to search them, pounded a Canadian captain into unconsciousness with a rifle butt, stripped the others of their wallets and watches. As Ghanaian troops moved in to intervene, the U.N.'s Indian Brigadier Inder J. Rikhye swooped down by helicopter from his Leopoldville headquarters. Livid with rage, he roared at the Congolese: "I order you off this airfield immediately!" Meekly they...
Canada sternly protested the incident, and angry Ralph Bunche went on Radio Leopoldville to complain on behalf of the U.N. "We have been subjected to senseless provocation," said Bunche sternly. Blandly, Lumumba brushed the affair off as "a banal incident . . . deliberately magnified by the Secretary-General...