Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denied all this, Lillian Hellman's libretto also bears her own strong impress, which is foreign to Voltaire's. Where Voltaire is ironic and bland, she is explicit and vigorous. Where he makes lightning, rapier thrusts, she provides body blows. Where he is diabolical, Playwright Hellman is humanitarian...
...Middle East gave Russia the chance to muffle the sounds of its own savage conduct in Hungary. With bland cynicism, it lectured Britain and France on aggression, proposed joining with the U.S. in fighting Egypt's invaders (a proposal the U.S. called "unthinkable"), and talked of using "force to crush the aggressors" in the Middle East. 'Bulganin went further: he asked Britain how it would feel "if she herself had been attacked by more powerful states possessing every kind of modern destructive weapon" and added that "there are countries now" that could do the job from a distance...
...office, in the exhibition hall and in some 20 oth er vantage spots around town. At one point, the TV network broadcast a film of Mao's visit to the exhibition. When Chair man Mao saw himself waving to people as he was leaving the hall, his round, bland face split like a sliced watermelon with a wide smile; he clapped his hands and cried, "Hao, hao" (Good, good...
...Columnist Dorothy Thompson there is another question that is equally important: Are the schools giving Johnny a reading diet of literature-or of pap? Last week, after comparing the old lesson books to the slick basal readers of today with their controlled vocabularies, word-frequency counts, and bland little tales about Dick and Jane, Columnist Thompson had her answer: "It is possible," says she in the current Ladies' Home
Died. Joseph Patrick ("Holy Joe") Boyle, 65, bland, blue-eyed longtime ward heeler for Memphis' E. H. ("Boss") Crump, who became police commissioner in 1940, gave the old steamboat town the cold-water blues by kicking out its gamblers, shutting down its bordellos; after a stroke; in Memphis...