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Mustached Man. Abbas' bland parliamentary manner had brought the French to negotiations but not to terms. Since a 1957 auto accident in Morocco, he has increasingly suffered from headaches, dizzy spells, and an inability to concentrate for long periods at a time. Clearly, Ferhat Abbas and the other moderates of his Cabinet had outlived their usefulness to the F.L.N.'s tough revolutionaries...
Even more seductive to some has been Khrushchev's bland proposal to make Berlin a free city. Plausible as the idea might seem, it presents almost insuperable problems. The fact is that West Berlin, is a land, or a state, of West Germany, using West German currency, stamps and legal codes. West Berlin pays nominal taxes to the Bonn government and, in return, has received about $3 billion in West German grants since 1950-and almost a billion in U.S. development funds. Lacking any resources but its own labor and managerial skills, Berlin has become the leading manufacturing city...
Winthrop House: O. Yale Lewis, Robert E. Kaufmann, Thomas G. Heintsman, Richard Crystal, Thomas H. Boone, Robert P. Bland, J. Stanley Pottinger, Alec W. Hart...
Furthermore, in a book which is largely concerned with what in wrong with American education, far too many of the vignettes are about good teachers and bland situations. I'm sure Mayer must have found better illustrations of education malpractice: I never had any trouble doing so when I was in the Ohio public school system. Once my eighth grade teacher tried to convince the class that Negoes were to be avoided. When I objected, he said. "Look at it this way. How would you like to swim in the same pool with one of them?" This was in Ohio...
...always to exceed his grasp. He was thinking of architecture not only in terms of this or that building, but of everything within the building- 'every detail of household furnishing, the street as well as the house and the wider world beyond." With an artist's bland disregard for the inertia of others, Le Corbusier drew up a master plan for a "Contemporary City of Three Million Inhabitants...