Word: blah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon also found poor performance in Latin American diplomacy -what Latinos call "blah-blah" Pan-Americanism. The Presidents' Conference in Panama in 1956, sponsored and attended by President Eisenhower, is scorned as "just a gesture" by U.S. friends such as Galo Plaza. Except for Communist crises -the Red threat to Guatemala -Secretary of State Dulles is virtually inaccessible to hemisphere diplomats for serious discussions. He is criticized for staying at the 1954 Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas just long enough to jam through an anti-Communist resolution, and fly home, leaving the question of economic relations, dear...
...mankind-like George Washington Carver-your selection would have been unassailable. But you have a great responsibility to the vast readership you reach. Just because Ellington and Armstrong and our rock 'n' roll nitwits have a following among people who are moved by the noises of blah-blah and nothingness, there is no reason why you should publicize their worthless causes...
...salmon pink and fiery white all fused together like stick candy-all suggestive of a child's fantasy of heaven . . ." In Salt Lake City he let loose a hot blast at Mormonism: "The harsh ugly temple, the temple sacrosanct, by us unvisited, unvisitable, so ugly, grim, grotesque, and blah . . . Enough, enough, of all this folly, this cruelty and this superstition-into the white car now and out of town." But what the Mormons had done with the countryside sent him into an ecstatic chant: "And then below the most lovely and enchanted valley of them all-the great valley...
...when he comes to write, the tongue seems to wag the man. Except for a few set pieces, e.g., a vivid description of a storm and some fine, clear passages of Irish speech, Rain on the Wind is a standing example of what happens when Erin goes blah...
...didn't intend." There is something even harder to take. "Just when . . . the correspondent has done all the preliminary work and is all set to cover [a] conference that the great world will be watching, he is handed a wire: 'Our Washington correspondent, Bill Blah, is arriving with the American delegation and will be in charge.Please give him every assistance...