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...slender, with glistening black eyes and trimmed black beard (a must for Orthodox priests), he has a soft, musical voice, which he uses without oratorical tricks. In interviews with foreign correspondents (which he gives readily) he is quiet-spoken, impassive, with no trace of emotion except, occasionally, a quick, bland smile that, says one correspondent, "crinkles his face like that of a boy who knows where the pot of jam is hidden." When talking, he likes to make a little cage of his hands, fingertips against fingertips...
...first hearing, the Seventh is not a work to seize its listeners by the ears or by viscera either. Instead, it sounds neat, trim and attractive, with an overall flavor bland enough to permit the savoring of delicate, sonic side dishes. The first movement is sunny and almost muscular, the slow movement an exurbanite pastoral, whose plaintive tune (in solo strings and winds) is accompanied by brassy grunts and then by vague and charming counter-tunes. This movement also contains an enigmatic episode: a sudden passage of smashing violence, gone as suddenly as it came. The finale is in jocose...
...negligible, whose contact with individual patients has been minimal for several years, and whose time is devoted to committees, journalism, and publicity for themselves and their institutions . . . Within the various schools of psychiatry we have much mutual backslapping and back-scratching in spite of intense personal rivalry, while a bland and successful façade is presented to the outside world...
...Dawes, General Pershing's chief purchasing agent in World War I, earned his nickname when a 1921 congressional committee was investigating war expenditures. Asked Indiana's Representative Bland: "Is it not true that excessive prices were paid for mules?" Roared Dawes: "Hell 'n' Maria! I would have paid horse prices for sheep if the sheep could have pulled artillery to the front!" * Hughes wore no eyepatch until about five years ago (see cut), is reluctant to discuss it because of Christian Science attitudes toward injury and disease. He credits Christian Science with curing an illness that...
...spell out one of the saddest stories in literature. Few Americans read King Lear, and fewer still would read it if it existed only in Scholar Kittredge's famous notes. Middleton Murry's book is of that scholarly kind. Yet, readers who do not insist on a bland diet of print will be well rewarded by this study of a man of tragic genius...