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...East. The desire for a return of all that was German beyond the Elbe. The vision of a neutral, unified Germany situated like an annealing cartilage between the raw joints of East and West. The calculations of power politics. A brooding sense of guilt in some; a bland lack of it in others. A survival of the "Master Race" madness that twice in less than 30 years has threatened the world and in the end brought a stupefied, battered but unrepentant Germany to its knees...
...role of the altruistic inventor who moves imperturbably through all the chaos is tailor-made for Alec (The Lavender Hill Mob) Guinness, with his sad, bland, foxy face. Deft sound-track embroidery: the rhythmical gurgles, bubbles, woofs and squirts of the test tubes that constantly point up the comic hubbub...
...Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt immediately asked to call. Miss Fatima at first refused to receive her. When a meeting was finally arranged, however, Mrs. Roosevelt was so bland about it, so pleased, so regally unaware of any intended rudeness, so utterly, ut- terly nice that 1) the Begum's followers were able to say that Miss Fatima was small, 2) Miss Fatima's followers were able to announce that Miss Fatima had a truly magnetic personality...
...first two: in 1913, W. J. Bland, who was killed in World War I, and, in 1922, Manhattan Lawyer R. M. Carson...
...Author Cabell takes back none of this sophomoric estimate, but he cannot help confessing that some cheer keeps breaking in on his misanthropy. With frankness and obvious satisfaction, he discusses his sex life and indulges in bland reveries on his numerous seductions. Fellow F.F.V.s who, he remembers, never bought his books will squirm at some of his recollections, if they ever hear about them. Remembers Cabell: "In practice, among the upper circles of the state of Virginia ... a fair number of accessible young gentlewomen whose social standing stayed unquestioned, whether as wives or as spinsters, were no whit averse...