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Kaye and Crosby play a couple of singers who meeting in the army, become enormous successes in the post-war world, sort of mature Martin and Lewis types. They and a pair of insipid girl singers put on a musical comedy at a small but snowless Vermont ski resort, thus saving the investment of their former commanding general, a stern disciplinarian, but really a nice guy underneath. They succeed...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: White Christmas | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

...very typical of Taubes that his favorite picture, the only print in his tiny, book-lined study, is an etching by Brueghel which pictures the artist and an onlooker. On he artist's face is all the agony and triumph of creation, while the insipid expression of the onlooker reflects only passive, exploitative enjoyment. Never content with passivity, Taubes is always he supremely ambitions artist...

Author: By James F. Gilligan, | Title: Nomad Philosopher | 10/23/1954 | See Source »

...Well, I really did feel I had every right in the world to resist the insipid protocol of turning my private life into the kind of running serial you find on bubble-gum wrappers. You can't just take sensitive parts of yourself and splatter them around like so much popcorn butter. Personal freedom has always been terribly important to me, and I have carried aloofness as a sort of banner to my sense of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...Advocate were but an echo, only an echo of the wealth of talent it has to draw from. Only an echo of scatology and weepy sentiment, of hours spent in thinking obscene thoughts and insipid stories. Advocate Short Story Contest. Pointless obscenity...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Advocate | 6/4/1954 | See Source »

Ever since the first head of Harvard College, Samuel Eaton, was thrown out for serving the students "insipid porridge," College presidents have been painfully aware that although man does not live by bread alone, erudition comes easier on a happily full stomach...

Author: By Robert L. Saxe, | Title: Harvard Food: Porridge, Plum Cake, Ptomaine | 3/19/1954 | See Source »

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