Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor Margaret been through enough lately? Why this Koch cover [Nov. 7] to add insult to injury? Without her name being printed in the lower right-hand corner, guessing the identity of this insipid suburban debutante would be impossible. Accept ten demerits while I go on pulling at my smelling salts to get over the bad case of the "uglies" you have given...
...flimsy pretexts for firing federal employees under the present U.S. "security" program, as outlined in TIME, Aug. 29, gave me the blue shudders. TIME is to be commended for exampling the insipid character of the loyalty interviews, and the Fund for the Republic merits congratulations for unearthing the brutal nature of the dismissals...
...eerie shimmer of the opening bars sounds like trance music in the movies, gives a hint of the nightmare to follow: tricky "improvements" on Strauss waltzes and other Viennese music. French Conductor Legrand painfully paralyzes the originals' lilting three-quarter time till the music sounds every bit as insipid as French popular music itself. A major atrocity that should cause Vienna to break diplomatic relations with Paris...
...because of poor diction and breathy tone, the Glee Club's sound was nearly always pale in upper voices and muddy in the bass. These failings actually enhanced the plain chant Te Lucis, but consistently spoiled the music of later composers. Even Charpentier's lovely Magnificat almost became an insipid bore--despite the excellence of violinists John Goodkind and John Barson, and Harvard cellist Stephen McGhee. After a mediocre Schubert cantata, the visitors offered a Bacchanals from Offenbach's La Belle Helene. At its close, Mr. Ludington did a little dance and several singers made Chevaliertype faces. The mugging...
Perhaps the only thing wrong with Salome was the "Dance of the Seven Veils," which was about five veils too long. It is musically insipid in an otherwise brilliant score, and Soprano Goltz, though originally trained as a ballet dancer, did not make it seem any better as she determinedly stripped to her white petticoat. Otherwise, Salome emerged as the great opera it is, its nervous, passionate music brilliantly conducted by another newcomer to the Met, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Dimitri Mitropoulos. With his long arms and shiny bald head making him look like a gnome...