Word: bland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this bothered either Khrushchev or Fidel Castro, they rather handsomely managed to conceal their dismay. Castro announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to help build "a fishing port" in Cuba to "facilitate the operations of the Soviet fishing fleet in the area of the Atlantic." With a bland air, Castro explained that he was "surprised to learn the extraordinary number of fishing boats that the Soviet Union has on all the seas." The Soviet newspaper Izvestia echoed the line of innocence: "The implementing of this agreement will not only allow Soviet fishermen to increase their catch of herring...
...biting satire of the play notwithstanding, the final joke of The Threepenny Opera seems to be on the authors. For their work is going the way of all universally accepted satire: it is becoming bland and there is little that can be done to reverse the trend. However much the actors try to squeeze out all the spleen in the play, the audience insists on ignoring them and converting Brecht and Weill into Lerner and Loewe...
...plan to attack Teddy personally during the campaign and thereby risk alienating the independent vote he needs to win. "You can't tell where votes are coming from," says Campaign Manager Paul Grindle, "so you can't irritate anyone. We've got to keep George bland. He can't offend anybody, and that includes anyone who might be offended by an attack on Teddy...
Cabled inquiries from the Chinese brought the bland answer from Djakarta that the oversight would be investigated. When no further word was heard, a Chinese official flew into Djakarta to settle the matter. No sooner had he landed than he was mysteriously warned that his life was in danger; he hotfooted it home on the next plane. Indonesia's Foreign Minister Subandrio then announced that Nationalist China had been excluded from the games because of "the sneaky attempt of a Chinese sports official to slip into the country and disrupt the games." Come-Home Cables. Israel did not even...
Saith Not. Critics generally liked the clarity of the N.E.B.'s New Testament, but many thought that it substituted the bland corporate prose of a newspaper editorial for the majestic cadences of the King James Version. Last week Dr. Godfrey Driver, chairman of the N.E.B.'s ten-man team of Old Testament scholars, made it clear that the translation of the Old Testament will raise exactly the same kind of hopes and hackles. He reported that 21 of the 39 Old Testament books have been completely translated and passed by the anonymous panel of literary experts-including...