Word: blander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bold, not Bland. In television it can be argued that far from being too opinionated, news is not opinionated and hard-hitting enough. Among the more thought-provoking responses to Agnew was a speech by Fred Friendly to the California Institute of Technology. Urging "bolder, not blander illumination" of issues on television, Friendly recalled regretfully that when he was president of CBS News in 1964, he decided against analysis of President Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin speech. Edward R. Murrow, for one, immediately phoned Friendly to deplore the omission. "I shall always believe," Friendly said last week, "that...
...result of this impasse was a postconference communique that was considerably blander than Russia would have liked. The only strong point was an expectable attack on U.S. policy in Viet Nam; West Germany and Israel were not even mentioned. Most significantly, Rumania withheld its signature from an endorsement of the nonproliferation treaty, while everyone else signed it. That was an open admission that, for the time being at least, Russia and Rumania have agreed to disagree, rather than to disengage, on some important issues...
Countless peptic-ulcer patients are put on a bland diet rich in milk and cream. If they then get cramping ab dominal pains, nausea and diarrhea, even worse than their original com plaints, their doctors usually put them on a still blander diet - meaning more milk. If such patients shirk their milk drinking and their symptoms diminish, the usual explanation is a quick, glib suggestion that they must be allergic to milk. Not so, report two University of Colorado doctors in the Journal of the A.M.A. The trouble is far more likely to be a shortage of the enzyme that...
Young Cassidy, most of it derived from the late Sean O'Casey's multi-volume autobiography Mirror in My House, is a shrewd compromise between truth and the blander stuff that makes agreeable popular entertainment. The man himself was a crusty, anticlerical Communist, scarcely the image of a conventional movie hero, though he also happened to be one of the grandest playwrights of the 20th century. Cassidy, filmed in and around Dublin with a wholehearted feel for the gritty poetry of the slums where the author lived and worked at the time of the Troubles, cuts...