Word: insipidities
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...Family movie" was once a valid description of a film with an entertainment range that knew no age barrier. Now, it is most likely to mean an unimaginative pacifier for the kids and an insipid lullaby for their elders...
...eliminate all restrictions on parietals or conversely eliminate parietals entirely. In this way the masters are relieved from compounding various hypocrises and the students are spared the necessity of proving their vitality by adopting extreme tactics. The untenability of restricting parietal hours can only make the masters seem insipid when they are interviewed by CRIMSON reporters. The proposed mass "sleep-in" would pervert the delicacy of sexual freedom by turning Harvard into a huge bawdy house. Surely we can expect the university to avoid both calamities...
...chorus, fortunately, appeared only twice; or rather, they fortunately sang only twice. Their sickly tone, occasionally faulty intonation, and insipid enunciation made their numbers the low points of the performance. Their colorful costumes (many in extravagant stripes) and well planned movements made it a pleasure to watch them, however; the stage became an enormous, dazzling kaleidoscope when they entered...
...they write for their daily papers is often "quite appalling, long, loose, rambling and repetitive." This lifeless writing results, King declared, from a "fetish for objectivity." Reporters "divest news of its own inherent drama. They cast away the succulent flesh and offer the reader dry bones, coated with an insipid sauce of superfluous verbiage. They reject the flashing, illuminating phrase, which can make an unknown foreign statesman come vividly alive, or a dash of wit which may relieve the tedium unavoidably contained in much important news...
Communist Kitty. Predictably, the Communist reaction to the conference was swift and negative. Hanoi and Peking dismissed it as a "big fraud" and an "insipid farce." Moscow said it masked U.S. plans to escalate, not end the war. Meeting in New Delhi, Yugoslavia, the United Arab Republic and India urged an immediate end to U.S. bombing of the North and withdrawal of all foreign-meaning U.S.-troops. Asked if that applied to the North Vietnamese as well as the Americans, U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser smiled blandly. "The North Vietnamese," he purred, "say they do not have any forces...