Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swirling Tide. Wilson came to try to change Charles de Gaulle's mind about British entry. He had laid the groundwork for his visit only the day before in a speech to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Usually a bland speaker Wilson this time sounded almost like De Gaulle himself, even borrowing such favorite terms of the general as "nation states and "diversity in unity." He endorsed De Gaulle's desire for a "real and living peace with our neighbors to the East." He even managed to sound properly alarmed about the Americans by warning that Europe...
...surprising thing is not that a majority of New Yorkers now tell pollsters that they disapprove of the mayor's performance, but that only 51% of them feel that way. Unpopularity is, after all, an occupational hazard of New York mayors; even Lindsay's bland predecessor, Robert Wagner, a Democrat in a city with a 7-to-2 Democratic registration edge, had 53% of the voters against him, according to a poll taken toward the end of his third term. The high hopes built up by a fresh new face made a letdown inevitable. Lindsay was, says Wagner...
...look for a new Secretary-General, none of the organization's members wanted to go through the traumatic process of searching for a replacement. Besides, despite the futility of his first term, U Thant had impressed the great powers that he was an honest, if bland, broker for the conflicts of the world...
HOUSES OF GOD by Jeannette Mirsky. 235 pages. Viking. $8.50. Just the thing for the pantheist on the gift list. An ecumenical rundown of all the world's most important places of worship, from the equinoctial siting at Stonehenge to the bland Meditation Room at the United Nations...
This group became known as "the Eight," and made its impact on the U.S. scene with such glum paintings of the cluttered urban scene that they were dubbed "the Ashcan School." But, traveling abroad in 1912 as the agent for Philadelphia Millionaire Dr. Albert C. Barnes, inventor of the bland antiseptic Argyrol, Glackens became more impressed by the vigor of contemporary French painting, helped Barnes acquire at bargain prices high-toned paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Matisse and Renoir...