Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Barcelona's aging (76) Archbishop Gregorio Modrego Casáus was doing his best to keep the lid on. Calling all publicity "harmful," he appealed to the press to forgo any further news or comment on the police attack; he also sent a bland message to his parish priests, to be read at Sunday Masses. Since the message virtually ignored the question of police brutality to clergymen, many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church...
Zipper Fragments. It is a good rule to leave a foreign body alone unless the heart continues to rebel against its presence, report Dr. Edward F. Bland of Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Gilbert W. Beebe of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. The heart usually accommodates itself to any hunk of metal that does not interfere with the working of a valve...
...very much was disturbed. Besides the front-page revision, a political cartoon has been added to the center spread, although to date it has been as bland as another addition, a quasi-gossip column, known as a diary, calculated to offend nobody. Even so, readers have already written anguished letters. The Times reassured them in an editorial: "There were far more vehement fears when the Times started a crossword puzzle. We hope that the Times diary will come to be as eagerly awaited and as highly regarded as the Times crossword...
Almost every college administrator is aware of what HEW Secretary John Gardner has termed "the flight from teaching." A massive drive is under way to "rediscover students" and "bring back teaching"?academe's typically bland admission that many colleges have lost sight of all those young bodies bulging their buildings...
...first show, The Service for Joseph Axminister, written by George Dennison, is a bland serving of existentialism dished out the self-conscious way the man who created the TV Batman would have done it. Alas, despite its mellow content, it will make...