Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with these admirable decisions was that they carried no practical weight. With bland disregard for its constitutional obligations, the Segni government made no attempt to persuade Parliament to revamp the public security laws in accordance with the decisions of the court. The Ministry of Interior continued to exercise its old powers, brassily slapped an additional 100 Italians into confino in the two months after the practice had been declared unconstitutional...
...world to rights about the whole thing. The book was called Half a Loaf, and its heroine remarked, after leaving her writer-husband: "She had licked the cream off the milk pail; she had had the fresh half of the loaf." Twenty-five years later Gracie evidently thinks that bland diet...
Joseph Wanton is character analysis in the grand manner. Done by Scottish Immigrant John Smibert, it shows a Royalist politician whose bland, irresolute features bode ill for his future fame. After Wanton became Governor of Rhode Island, he fought with soft talk the stirrings of the American Revolution, and retired the moment the storm broke. Painter Smibert's story was just the opposite. He learned his craft by studying the masters while painting carriages, came to America in 1729, when he was 40. One year later he held the first art show ever recorded in America, and became...
...considerable one, however, since an impassive, insipid Ahab robs Melville's story of its hottest fire and its deepest meaning. Peck is just utterly miscast. For one thing, he is too young, giving no impression whatever of having seen "forty years and one thousand lowerings" on whaling ships. His bland face has nothing of the torn, tortured, gnawed-at, fiery look that Ahab should have. Rather, as he paces the Pequod's deck, his long strides, suspenders, beard, and melancholy, almost soft, expression remind the viewer more of one of Ahab's prominent but quite contrasting contemporaries--Abe Lincoln...
California. Not a single G.O.P. candidate for Congress won in the Democratic primary under the state's cross-filing system (although three Democrats won both nominations). In the Senate race, bland, middle-of-the-road Republican Thomas Kuchel (rhymes with treacle ), completing Richard Nixon's unexpired term, cross-filed for a second try: he polled 1,274,000 votes on the Republican ticket to win the nomination over cross-filing Democrat Sam W. Yorty, Los Angeles lawyer and ex-Congressman. On the Democratic ticket, State Senator Richard L. Richards, 39, free-swinging, liberal disciple of Representative James Roosevelt...