Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best thing about it all is the character of the professor, who puddles around quoting Zeno and being abstract, and turns out to be perceptive even about one or two of the details of everyday existence. Sex, for instance. His bland assertion of delightfully simple and complex statements is masterful...
Windshield Wipers? The bland attitude gave priceless mileage to the Administration's Democratic critics. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, already planning a full-scale investigation of the Administration's missile policy, said bitterly in an Austin, Texas speech: "The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads. Later−when men moved to the sea−the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age, we were powerful because we had airplanes. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. It is not very reassuring to be told that next...
...Nixon-Dulles statements did not and could not overcome the general impression that the Administration was taking a bland view of Sputnik. Since the Soviet satellite first swirled skyward, there had been a continuous whirl of top-policy meetings behind closed Washington doors. ("A conference is not a place," said a Washington wag. "It is a technique for hiding.") The only apparent results came with the announcements that 1) Defense Department research and development funds would have to be cut by 10% because of an order issued last August by retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, and that 2) new Defense...
...editorial page last week what an editorial page should be about. "Reading most newspaper editorials these days," wrote the new chief of the Trib's editorial page, ex-TIME-and-LiIFE Staffer William J. Miller, "is like eating boiled watermelon. They are dull, even worse, they are bland. Our whole society has become bland. The old-fashioned American capacity for outrage or indignation is so often absent as to seem almost archaic. We intend to restore...
...afterglow of the success of last year's Perry Como and Dinah Shore shows, the TV networks are taking a high shine to popular singers in jumbo productions. In fact, the TV season threatens to be, in the phrase of one critic, a case of "the bland leading the bland." TV's Pepsi-Cola girl, Polly Bergen, got mired down in embarrassingly labored exchanges with a shrill, scenery-chewing "panel" of other show folk, and only when she used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color...