Word: characterlessness
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Three years ago Harvard-schooled Nicholson put some of his Tampa profits into the characterless, long unprofitable New Orleans Item. He found the office picketed the day he arrived. Other Nicholson discoveries: padded circulation, discounted advertising rates, several of the low-paid editorial staff also on the Earl Long machine payroll, a run-down plant (an Item man once raised chicks in a third-floor office...
...story bungalow with five; 2) a lot not over 40 ft. wide; 3) quantity building on more or less identical plan. The challenge to architects: to face this fundamental problem in design, which now in many cases goes by default to builders without benefit of architect, with frequently characterless results...
...emerging with definite personalities. They collect scholars, or athletes, they give characteristic plays and have their own distinctive inner societies. These are the trimmings which make the House. Without them a House is just a place where a student hangs his hat, a dormitory of brick and mortar, characterless and colorless, where no tradition or sentiment can linger long...
...much interested in criticizing the University as the world outside. This is a good sign. These particular critics are very critical of the present management. Their special antipathy seems to be the "middle class." The leading editorial dubs the middle class "over-stuffed" and also "vast, characterless, and self-satisfied." Another of the editors denounces Walter Lippmann as "no more nor less than the Brisbane of the intelligentsia," intimating that he too has become excessively middle-class. The author of an article entitled, "Hell and Farewell: The End of Social Democracy," pays his respects to contemporary Fascism, which he excoriates...
...cynosure of all eyes at the Metropolitan this week. It would be otiose not to sing her praises, because some of her charm and personality manages to transcend the tawdry banality of the Revue in which she appears, the ornate ensembles in which she is dressed, and the characterless puppets who support her. On the screen she had as distinct an individuality as Theda Bara ever had, but on the Metropolitan stage she was unable to glitter as in "Fascination" or "Peacock Alley". The romance of the Merry Widow waltz left the "Publix" patrons cold, whereas less black velvet...