Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language is often the typically bland product of committees. And though the liturgical commission denies any doctrinal shift, the draft softens some of the gloomier theologizing of the Anglican past. "The 1928 version is overloaded with sin and penitence," says Canon Charles Guilbert, 67, custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer and secretary of the liturgical commission. "The old Communion didn't really accept forgiveness. We trust God. We trust that if we confess, he will forgive...
...catch up with Doonesbury, which needs plenty of space for its extended dialogues. A less immediate danger is that Doonesbury's following may shed the passive disillusionment and cynicism that Trudeau satisfies so wittily. Already some of Doonesbury's younger followers are finding the strip a bit bland and irrelevant. "The Establishment has decided that Doonesbury is a cute little expression of how clever kids are," says Harvard Senior Tom Hubbard. "It's been co-opted, and we're getting tired of it." Right now, however, that "we" is a tiny and humorless minority...
Many colleges, in turn, are looking suspiciously at the letters that come in. Harold Doughty, director of admissions at New York University, notes that "recommendations are more bland, less reliable and less frank." Says Richard Lyman, president of Stanford University: "Letters of recommendation, one suspects, have long been subject to a debasement of the coinage. And how-the drive to make them freely available to the persons about whom they are written seems perfectly designed to administer the coup...
...much time for ego. "We literally live the show," says Chevy. "I no longer have a private life." Married at 24 and now divorced, he has a girl friend in California whom he has not seen in two months. NBC executives expect great things of him. Impressed by his bland cheekiness, which suggests the young Bob Hope, they are hyping him as a possible successor to another all-American boy, Johnny Carson. Nothing doing, says Chevy. "I have no desire to spend the rest of my life interviewing actors. That's what I'm trying to expose...
...hero and the heroine, thrown together by chance at the outset, almost invaribly take an instant dislike to one another. Heyer's protagonists are all well-born and haughty, and nearly all are extremely strong-willed. Presented as fairly intelligent and mature, they would never do anything so bland and conventional as to fall in love at first sight--it usually takes 150 pages...