Word: colorlessness
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...Communist leader least likely to be accused of promoting a personality cult is Hungary's Janos Kadar, a man as cold and colorless as the sour cream with which Magyars anoint the spicy stew they call szekely gulyds. Ever since he crushed the 1956 revolt, Premier Kadar has kept his picture off office walls and newspaper pages, remains so unfamiliar that even today he can walk the streets of Budapest without being recognized by many Hungarians. All the same, the new style in Communist circles these days is separation of party and government leadership, and so Kadar last week...
This doggedly purposeful drama qualifies handily as the grimmest movie of the year; yet the best of it burns into the mind. As the pawnbroker, Rod Steiger performs with tightly measured virtuosity. He is colorless, an inconspicuous blob hidden behind steel-rimmed glasses and a steel-wool mustache. To blot out a world full of past and present horrors, Sol listlessly endures an affair with his best friend's widow. He spurns the friendship of a sympathetic social worker (Geraldine Fitzgerald), slowly begins to soften toward his troubled young Puerto Rican assistant (Jaime Sanchez), then crushes...
...story in SCIENCE) seemed to be taking no chances: their astral greeting was addressed to "the Leninist Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet government." They could have been bolder, for after they fell from orbit, the government was still in the hands of Khrushchev's colorless successors, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and First Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev...
Turning first to economics, De Gaulle began with a 20-minute justification of the De Gaulle policy-midway between the "excesses" of totally free enterprise and "sullen, colorless and savorless" socialism. Then he declared that the reunification of Germany, one of the cold war's most explosive issues, could be accomplished only "by Europe herself"; this brought snorts of disagreement from Washington, which considers the matter to be of wider concern...
...poems, particularly The Waste Land, confused many established critics, enraged others. Christopher Morley even suggested that The Waste Land, and its celebrated six pages of notes, was a hoax. W. B. Yeats found Eliot's poems flat, unrhythmical, colorless, "working without apparent imagination." But years later, Rose Macaulay recalled The Waste Land's first impact: "Beyond and through the dazzling, puzzling technique, the verbal fascination, the magpie glitter of the borrowed and adapted phrases that brought a whole chorus of literature into service, enriching and extending every theme-beyond and through all this there was the sharp sense...