Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recorded live at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C., has soared up the pop charts, past such rock 'n' run regulars as the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. The title song has the usu al rocking beat, but Pianist Lewis also dispenses old-fashioned swing, bland harmonies and light-fingered embellishments in such well-worth-repeating pieces as Duke Ellington's Come Sunday and Buddy Johnson's Since I fell...
Such a role precisely fits Dean Rusk's personality. He has a quiet charm, exercised mostly in private; few find him brilliant, but on occasion, before an audience he deems especially congenial or knowledgeable, he is remarkably illuminating. He gives the impression of being bland, and many of his admirers just wish he would lose his temper once in a while. He is a student of foreign affairs, not an innovator; a reflective man allowed little time for reflection by the pace of his present position...
...fresh water is steamed off until, in the more efficient operations, an average of 3½ gallons of sea water is turned into a gallon of fresh. So pure is the result that sometimes a jigger of such contaminants as magnesium salts is tossed back in to eliminate the bland, distilled taste...
Bull-Necked Throng. At meeting's end, as usual, the League members came up with a bland six-point peace plan that called for, among other things, solidarity against Israel, noninterference in one another's domestic affairs, an end, once and for all, to press and radio diatribes against other Arab states...
SYLVIA MARLOWE: HARPSICHORD (Decca). The eminent harpsichordist looks to the future of her archaic instrument by commissioning new pieces by the dozen. Among them are chamber works by Ned Rorem and Elliott Carter, both contrasting the tangy harpsichord with bland woodwinds. Rorem strings together short, romantic "songs without words," while Carter builds a severe, towering structure out of tiny musical blocks. Highlight of the recording is the plangent Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello by Manuel de Falla...