Word: insipidities
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...moments: an exciting crescendo in the first section, or the sometimes startling rhythmic attacks by the strings. Generally, however, it is disappointing. A few times the strings start a vamp that in most modern composers would lead to a moving buildup. But here the woodwinds sneak in a few insipid, undefined attempts, and then everything collapses. Given such uninspired--but difficult--music, the orchestra seemed to perform well, although Yannatos's uncharacteristically active conducting revealed that they were a little insecure...
...itself, refreshing. Describing his brilliant production of Galileo in San Francisco, Herbert Blau wrote, "In approaching Galileo quite differently -- after years of pondering Brechtian notions -- my trust is that to be irreverent is to be more faithful." Probably so, but Wheeler's approach is not so much irreverent as insipid...
...been supplanted by "Gallia est omnis," etc. on the undoubtedly accurate grounds that Caesar's De Bello Gallico will be more familiar to audiences than Ovid's Heroides. One wonders, however, why any of these three gentlemen would want to marry Bianca, for Geneva Bugbee makes her an insipid nullity...
Ordinarily, the discovery of humor in a humor magazine offers little cause for astonishment and Freshmen--to whom this merry September number is dedicated--may wonder what the hullabaloo is all aout. The sordid veritas is that out 'Poonie friends have churned out, with alarming consistency, flabby issues of insipid verse and effete prose; they have nourished an involuted, exclusive brand of sneery-smile humor (nothing off-color, of course) and the result has been that, m beyond the arid confines of Lampoon Castle and Hasty Pudding, I have scarcely ever heard anyone laugh out loud at a Lampoon...
...encouraged to think otherwise by a second piece of asinine twaddle, again much closer to Lampy's norm. Two undergraduates find that Harvard's phantom colored paneler has murdered some Georgian architects. It's tough to imagine anyone cracking a smile over this insipid little soporific, except possibly Dean Sert...