Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clem Attlee as gullible as he seems? It is hard to tell from his curious, deadpan way of writing and speaking. His sentences frequently end on a tentative note, as if the point will come in the next paragraph. He can be bafflingly bland. Sample (from his autobiographical account of his first trip to Moscow in 1936): "Unfortunately, my visit preceded by a few weeks the big purges, which removed a number of [the leading men] I had contacted, notably Marshal Tukhachevski." Attlee could walk with Dante through hell and emerge remarking that "different people had different tastes...
...Meet the Press, A.F.L. President George Meany exposed a bland and impervious hide to four eager newsmen. Even as determined and tenacious a questioner as Lawrence Spivak was unable to make any headway, and when the New York Times's Stanley Levy suggested that Meany had worked with Governor Thomas E. Dewey to enforce the licensing of stevedores on Manhattan's odorous docks, Meany snapped: "I guess you don't read your own newspapers. I publicly opposed licensing...
...Homer opposite are public favorites respectively at the Fort Worth Art Center and the Butler Art Institute (in Youngstown, Ohio). These are not subtle or even vastly skilled pictures, and they hardly relate to European traditions. Eakins' gawky and youths are a far cry figure from the bland, beautiful athletes of classical sculpture and Renaissance figure painting. Homer's schoolboys-like real ones-are more energetic than graceful...
Human Wall. The great flood began late last spring, when a Siberian cold front collided with a moisture-laden warm-air mass moving inland from the Southeast Pacific. Red China, anxious to maintain its pose of bland invincibility before the world at Geneva, said nothing about its flood so long as it could conceal it. and later tried to minimize...
...joke. On a set simulating Manhattan's Blue Angel nightclub, Bean casually introduces a few expert acts (including, on one program, Comic Leo De Lyon, who can whistle and hum two songs at once) and spends the rest of the all-too-brief half an hour in bland comedy. Example: the prizes for a contest run by the National Kumquat Growers' Association - $5,000 worth of sneakers (size 17E), six miles of dental floss, an all-expense, two-week vacation trip to Youngstown, Ohio, one brand-new screen door (together with 200 flies...