Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether they hail from the land of beets and borscht, knockwurst and Heineken, bark and betel nuts, or milk and honey, there is one issue on which foreign students at Harvard unanimously and vociferously agree: American food is greasy, bland and tasteless...
...other foreigners at Harvard have learned to make do with greasy and bland dining hall food, just because, as Korean Ok-Hoo Hanes says, "Convenience is important." They have learned exactly which ingredients to season their salads with, and in what proportions. And to spice their daily routine even further, they occasionally...
...architecture, Peachtree Center is neat, competent and mostly bland. But as a boost for the center city, it has worked wonders. By zesty street designs-bright colors, flags, modern sculpture, trees and fountains-Portman created a pleasant environment that brought new life downtown. Other Atlanta developers have followed his lead. They, too, have built, not isolated towers, but large, coherent projects with hotels, apartments, shops, offices and sport facilities. Result: Atlanta has one of the healthiest downtowns...
Seminary leaders who saw earlier drafts of the report are understandably unenthusiastic, though Harvard Dean Krister Stendahl himself is critical of bland "university theology" that has no roots in religious communities. Lindbeck's Yale boss, Dean Colin Williams, and Vanderbilt's Dean Sallie TeSelle both claim that their schools are striving to preserve various traditions and train church leaders. As for Chicago's Associate Dean Martin Marty, he says his school has little interest in training ministers and thinks his friend Lindbeck "is a little too mournful about the shattering of the stained-glass windows...
...court, it came very close to it. Louis H. Pollak, later a dean of Yale Law School, called the Brown decision "probably the most important governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation." Richard Kluger goes even farther. He puts this revolutionary ruling-deliberately phrased in bland language and read in a matter-of-fact voice by a moderate Republican from California-at the heart of 200 years of American history...