Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western world-with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin's old brainchild, Poor Richard's Almanac. Devoid of ads, news, politics religion, sex, its 108 pages brim with simplistic sermonettes, warm remembrances and fervent hopes. Texts, which seldom run over 500 words, are sprinkled with bland heads ("One-Man Production" "Dynamics for Survival"), beguiling sketches and bylines of the famous and the unknown...
...walls, desks and her own face with pigments blended from inks, instant coffee and Ajax. She would unexplainably put her head through a windowpane. She also plays rough, suggesting to her father "a commando course supervised by an overwhelming midget," a "Gotterdammerung written in mud, rain, and your own bland...
...huge powers. He was to assume authority not only over the crucial area of budget making, but was also to supervise the monitoring of some 1,000 federal programs. But there is often an immense difference between an official's paper powers and his real influence. Shultz is bland and quiet. Would he be able to penetrate the tight White House staff hierarchy and make his presence felt? The answer is in. Shultz has arrived-dramatically...
Erwin cannot, for instance, abide student dissent, even the relatively bland variety found in the American Southwest. He is convinced that the survival of public universities is at stake, a feeling that many other citizens share. In the past four months, he has engineered the abrupt departures of six administrators, including Chancellor Harry Ransom and President (Austin campus) Norman Hackerman-both of whom, it is thought, were too soft on student militancy to suit Erwin. The latest casualty: Dr. John R. Silber, 43, one of the country's leading philosophers, who was fired as dean of the College...
Artists come off differently under photographic inspection. Tenor Jon Vickers is a powerful stage actor, but he seems meek and calculated in Carmen and I Pagliacci. Raina Kabaivanska, a bland personality at the Met, emerges as a film actress of subtlety and range. Best of all is the Hamburg Opera's leading lady, American Arlene Saunders, who illuminates her roles with humor, and warm, emotional singing...