Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their dog is called Mr. Bonnard.) Behind her seemingly bland suburban life, she is passionately preoccupied with the conflict between appearance and reality. Her bizarrely clad and contorted figures, divided fore and aft in space, are rounded with confusing contours, so that they float between the flat surface of the canvas and its artfully contrived depths...
...bland assertion of Beckett's title -How It Is-is likely to engender the irritated reply, "No, it ain't." Yet the real fault of this book and of Beckett's recent works is not the question of whether God exists or whether life has meaning. It is that despite Beckett's ingenuity, his touches of great eloquence, his flashes of brilliant wit, he simply has nothing new to say, and what he says over and over again does not much need saying. As with most of Beckett's metaphors for the human condition...
News Front's gift subscribers seem to favor its relatively bland reading fare. One of the most popular features of each issue is also the most unreadable, except perhaps to businessmen: interminable tabulations of what some segment of the business scene spends on research, collects in income, earmarks for advertising-all cast in the eye-straining type that spills from electronic computers. Many of News Front's trend stories demand not only reader attention but reader participation: the magazine is forever sending out lengthy questionnaires to its circulation list (60% of the subscribers usually fill them...
...lecturer speak on Plato's "Ion." But another group of girls takes the opposite path, playing bridge for long hours every day and joking about their own apathy. "I guess I'm just not as intellectually curious as I thought I was," one doll-like freshman said with a bland smile...
...stations, there was an air of supreme courtsmanship about the judgment. The FCC supported Pacifica and granted the licenses, saying that if it were to throw Pacifica off the air because some people were offended, the Bill of Rights would be violated and, moreover, "only the wholly" inoffensive, the bland, could gain access to the radio microphone or TV camera" thereafter...