Word: colorlessness
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Stuffiness Is Out. They threw out the stuffy editorials, the colorless layouts, the long "short" stories, and crusaded for public health, clean politics and flogging for child-beaters. They began campaigning against venereal disease, wrote a widely reprinted ad headlined OF COURSE I'LL TAKE A WASSERMANN. Circulation sat up, got up, and climbed...
...play tells of three glaringly dissimilar couples who decide to share a Manhattan mansion. One couple is incredibly frivolous and snobbish; another is grubby, worthy and naive; both are caricatures, while the third is merely colorless. Never deviating from formula, Town House first shows the couples squabbling with one another, then shows them squabbling among themselves, introduces a snooty mother, a sassy child, and a big shot neighbor who first wishes them all in hell and finally carries them all to heaven...
Last week, hardworking, colorless John Studebaker, 61, quit his $10,000 job. "Along with too many other men," he wrote President Truman, "the time has now come when I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." As vice president of Scholastic Magazines and editorial chairman of their five classroom publications, he would make considerably more...
...smiling, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed Westerner, with thinning grey hair and an easy, friendly manner, he specializes in the homely, forthright phrase, a booming laugh, and a bone-crushing handshake; wears well-tailored blue, grey or brown suits, flashy ties, rimless glasses or glasses with colorless horn rims. He has a standing order that his office door remain open to all callers. He is a joiner: the American Legion, the Elks, the Masons (33rd degree and past Grand Master of California), the Native Sons of the Golden West...
Miss Addison was distinctly the star of the evening. She sang her part well technically; but more than that she sang with perfect feeling for the sincere, restrained emotion characteristic of the Handel-Milton combination. Instead of the colorless clarity used for Handel by British sopranos like Isobel Baillie she brought a superb temperate richness to her part...