Word: colorless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who is addicted to this kind of music must find chamber-music very dull, flat, and colorless, indeed. Its comparative quietness, and its total lack of aggressive character, demand much greater concentration on the listener's part. But the reward of this extra concentration is well worth the effort. For in training oneself to appreciate these smaller forms, not an insuperable task by any means, one will become acquainted with the greatest music of Schubert and Haydn, and much of the greatest of Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven...
Nobody doubted that No. 2 man, Sam Houston Jones, 42, log-cabin-born lawyer from growing Lake Charles (pop. 15,791) in West Louisiana, had a good chance in the run-off next month. A medium-sized, moderately colorless, moderately prosperous small-town ex-assistant prosecutor of unquestioned honesty, Sam Jones's greatest appeal lay in his name. Driving through the Louisiana countryside, motorists reported a warm grass-roots emotion at seeing signs that asserted with quiet dignity: This Is a Sam Jones Town. They felt that a politician named Sam Jones might travel...
...last, the Faculty Council issued the following statement: "Commercial tutoring rests upon a false theory of education and its practices exert a harmful influence." It wasn't a very exciting statement; anyone used to reading Zane Grey or Shakespeare would have thought it pretty cold and colorless. But after allowances were made for the prose style of an official Harvard communication, and when the statement was placed in its proper historical setting, it began to assume tremendous significance...