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...today-where we don't even know what the deficit will be next year." In recent weeks and months, and in blunt, unmistakable terms, Goldwater has charged that the U.S. faces a choice between free enterprise and big government, criticized the New Frontier as no better than an insipid copy of the New Deal, demanded that the U.S. begin a drive to win the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Salesman for a Cause | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...means of a device I choose to call Russell's Law--after the pioneer investigator, Miss Anna Russell--every Gilbert and Sullivan director for the past half century has managed to save his show from complete collapse. As the dialogue becomes ever more insufferably insipid, and the music more desperately dull, (I phrase this in the style of Miss Russell) for God's sake...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Patience | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Actually it is the setup that pulls the show down, for it makes vice as insipid as virtue. Constantly recalling Guys and Dolls, Do Re Mi so little equals it that where the book of Guys was a blessing, Do's is a bore. And whether from an effort to even things up, or merely by contrast, the music at times seems fiendishly loud, the dancing fiendishly frenzied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Musical on Broadway | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...well chosen images and pleasing conceits. His language is quite subtle, leaving itself susceptible to various interpretations, permitting the inclusion of various ideas. This flexibility can most obviously be demonstrated in a poem called He Wins! This piece is on a common theme; it begins on a deceptively insipid note...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Caroms | 7/28/1960 | See Source »

Immortality Insipid...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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