Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps it is prosperity, perhaps the War, perhaps because newness itself is no longer really new, that a generation now inhabits these same corners across whose face is engraved the indictment, Bland. However it happened, youth is no longer young. Rarely now do dormitories echo with deep belly laughs, or sincere cries of despair. Neither a laugh nor a cry; only the faceless, anonymous bunch who find comfort in their own mediocrity...
...easy to end in an optimistic key. What I offer is primarily an accusation, a charge of contempt at a generation, of platitudes and poker-faces, of bland naivete and old mens' souls, of belts in the back and repp in the front. And if the language is sharp, it is only because I am tried to too much smoothness everywhere around...
Smith began marketing borax in the East with the bland promise that "a thimbleful of borax" kept cream sweet, a borax shampoo cured "nervous headache...
...bland reply, Silberstein promised that all would be well, but conceded one seat on the eight-man Penn-Texas board to his Morse-led stockholders. They claimed that they control more than 1,000,000 of 4,700,000 Penn-Texas shares outstanding, may even end up with as many as three seats when the proxies are counted...
Miri is a grave Greek girl with long black eyelashes and long brooding silences who goes to an eastern U.S. college. At a nearby school is her cousin Lexy-mercurial, unkempt, rude and life-intoxicated. Lexy's roommate Josh is well-rooted in America but emotionally rootless, blond, bland and sweet-mannered. Lexy, who has run away from his unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit...