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...clearly going out of their way to make Nixon's visit pleasant and untroubled. On the eve of the journey, China is undergoing a great wave of repainting, face scrubbing and sign switching. Slogans referring bluntly to "U.S. imperialists and their running dogs" have been replaced by blander remarks about "the unity of the world's peoples." In some cases, however, it is impossible to tell whether the bustle is caused solely by the impending visit. Since Nixon will reach Peking only six days after the start of China's New Year, a traditional cleanup time, much...
...whose book learning propels her into civic leadership, produced a bright, reedy soprano but had stiff presence. Simon Estes, as Treemonisha's father Ned, draped Joplin's curvaceous melodies in rolling voluminous sound. But with surprisingly lackluster support from Conductor Robert Shaw, Treemonisha's effect was blander than the score deserved...
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...