Word: blanding
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Roderick MacFarquhar, government department chair, says he would be worried the department was becoming too bland if there was not a diversity of opinion between professors. Similar feelings pervade the history department. “We’ve been fortunate, and my sense is that this is true of history departments across the U.S., that although there are very wide differences of approach and methodology and even definition of what history is and can be that these arguments have been debated in friendly and collegial fashion,” says Blackburn. “I think...
...Elizabeth L. Bland...
...fair, when it comes to the Middle Eastern quagmire, absolute objectivity may be too much to ask. But some semblance of balance in a professor’s presentation is not. Bland-centrists do not offset the rants of anti-Israel activists so zealous (and paranoid?) they fear the interference...
...going to crawl out of its current rut of shiny jewels and bland rhymes, it's going to need new voices. That's why the debut of Bubba Sparxxx, a white 24-year-old farm boy from LaGrange, Ga., holds such promise. On Ugly and Bubba Talk ("Y'all don't know me at all/I say the same thing but slower than y'all"), Sparxxx plays the country cousin to great effect, and aided by Timbaland's near-perfect production, it's fun to dance to as well. On other tracks, notably Well Water, Bubba dilutes his uniqueness with...
...Weapons of mass destruction" is a bland euphemism. These are weapons of genocide. And Osama bin Laden has openly declared his readiness to use them on the infidel. The enemy has declared total war. Yet we eschew all but limited war. The asymmetry is potentially suicidal...