Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once was in the Kremlin hierarchy. Watching him last week as he tried to answer the West's challenge, his opposite numbers concluded that he had been relegated to the status of an "operator." He had the air of a man quoting from something. But the bland and deceptive phrases he rolled out were still an instructive lesson in Russian truespeak, a code designed to confuse the inattentive. Herewith, a running translation of Molotovisms...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (by George Axelrod) is a satiric free-for-all on Hollywood and sex by the author of The Seven Year Itch. There is a blonde, Marilyn-Monroeish siren, a bland Hollywood agent with satanic powers, an illiterate Hollywood producer, an idling playwright who wrote a sock first play and can't get on with a second. And there is a shy, not very bright young fan-magazine writer who, by selling his soul in 10% slices to the agent, becomes a modern-day Faust...
...reason company papers put out such a bland diet is that they are too often published by employees on loan from personnel and advertising staffs who have no newspaper experience. Furthermore, they have no contact with top management, have no idea of what goes on in the president's office. Some editors, in turn, often show an ostrich-like attitude to important stories, e.g., one southern industrial editor insisted that a topic like the Guaranteed Annual Wage "did not apply" to his 60,000 C.I.O. readers. During the bitter strike by the Communications Workers of America last spring against...
...Brew. After two years of experimentation, Milwaukee's Blatz Brewing Co. next week will start test-marketing Tempo, a bland new brew aimed at the potential consumers (54% of all U.S. adults) who never touch beer. Tempo is flavored with an extract of fresh hops, which are milder than the dried hops ordinarily used by brewers to give beer its traditional tang. With fresh hops the new brew is lighter and brighter in color than standard Blatz, but has the same alcoholic content (4.9% by volume), and will sell, in bottles and cans, for the same price...
...Kent was at the controls in three of the crashes). After graduation (and orders to duty with the Royal Scots Grays), the Duke blushingly denied that his cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, had ordered him henceforth to do his landborne flying only with an experienced copilot at his side. His bland explanation for his plans to abstain from driving for a while: "I have simply not got a car to drive...