Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white hope" of English letters that Novelist Henry (Loving) Green calls him in a jacket blurb, but at 27, after brief careers as a sailor, private tutor and circus hand, Hinde has put together an expert novel. His storytelling is done in meticulously understated style, but beneath its bland surface, Mr. Nicholas is relentless in its exploration of a quiet, homey little English hell...
...Polish catch-all that, in effect, would have reopened the Korean issue and brought it before the Assembly for debate. For 90 minutes he had sneered and snorted at the U.S. for "quibbling" and "stalling." Overnight the Poles withdrew their proposal, and Vishinsky, making a 180° turn with bland imperturbability, praised the Brazilian substitute as "good and appropriate . . . in the present circumstances." Sweet, rare unanimity thereupon prevailed for the first time on any matter involving the Korean war. The Assembly's Political Committee was so awed by what happened that it pattered applause. Pleased but unawed, U.S. Delegate...
...friends and finally his one consistent loyalty to Stalin, will prove a trustworthy friend to them? . . . Tito is seeking to extirpate Christianity in Yugoslavia . . . Mr. Eden would not invite the country to feast and flatter a notorious Jew-baiter. Only when Christianity is at stake do our leaders show bland indifference...
...BLAND D. AUXER...
Librettist W. S. Gilbert once trapped the editor of Punch with a bland question: Were many jokes sent in? "Hundreds." said the editor. "Then," snapped Gilbert, "why don't you print some of them?" Like some Englishmen, Americans have long looked on Punch's quiet brand of British fun with blank amazement. But since the war, Punch has been trying to broaden its audience (TIME, June 2, 1947). Now, to prove that even U.S. readers can laugh at today's Punch (circ. 136,537), its editors have authorized a collection of The Best Cartoons from Punch (Simon...