Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shastri's major qualifications are that he is personally close to Nehru and that he has almost no political enemies. Bland and self-effacing, he is almost the center of gravity of the Congress Party, is thus an ideal compromise between the party's left and right wings. Shastri is a devout believer in nonalignment, but thinks that India must also forge strong ties to the Western democracies. Though committed to socialism, he is far less doctrinaire than India's stricken leader, says: "We must relieve the misery of the people and raise their economic condition...
...Gerald Gardner. It promised a lot: a live program full of uninhibited topical satire, laced with guts and gaiety and the spirit of no tomorrow. But this side of Menninger's, no one could have dreamed that such a promise would be delivered. The actual result was bland and unfunny, full of toothpicks masquerading as rapiers...
...going? . . . Do you really . . ." The fact is that he was interested in the conversation. The extraordinary thing about the Governor is that political mannerisms are not a pose for him, but an integral part of his personality. This gives him limits as well as assets: it makes him a bland figure, despite his sometimes courageous political positions. He seems almost incapable of offending anyone...
SINATRA'S SINATRA (Reprise) is supposed to be "a collection of Frank's favorites," and turns out to be a bland bouquet of his hits...
Maclean's voice has intensity, but his bland, uniform and almost constant intensity fails to convince or even, after a while, to entertain. All three of these actors often speak too rapidly. They lose good lines and make many passages difficult to understand...