Word: insipidness
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...gets worse and worse. A red-hot flatiron sets fire to the house at midnight, and, as if this were not ridiculous enough, the young lovers, saying protracted good-byes in the lady's bedroom, persist in arguing as the flames sweep around them. There is the usual insipid ending-divorce and the marriage of the perfectly mated...
...addition to the argument that a common dining room promotes social contacts, considerations for the health of students who are forced to eat the insipid slow poison that is being dispensed in some of the restaurants, demand that the university consider means to replace Memorial Hall with a modern dining room...
...with pungent criticism of the author's statements. Others are briefer, as "Whoo!" at one place, and "Abaurd" at another or "What can be allude to here?" At another place he notes "The merciless sport of the Gladiators must have had no little share in rendering the legitimate Tragedy insipid to the Romans. To obviate this the few Roman Tragic writers out-Heroded Herod, or deformed their dialogues into the epigrammatic...
...member of the "irritable race" -a writer. When Jill Wetherell, aging nymph, snares Pendleton in one of his "misunderstood" moments, Nelly vengefully becomes Mrs. Paramor. Ultimately, both Nelly and Pendleton revert to type and the story closes with a coo. It is all very country-clubby and insipid, but the bookmanship is flawless-a Jack for every Jill. And occupants of porch chairs who read Mrs. Paramor will surely spend many a more boring Summer afternoon...
...both sides that descriptions of this nature are not aesthetically beautiful, and that Walt Whitman cannot always be read in the parlor, but in this case the remedy seems worse than the disease. Amputation of "disgusting" passages in accepted classics has been attempted in secondary schools with utterly insipid results. To apply this principle to modern literature seems but a new version of the old story of that very characteristic man who cut off his nose to spite his face. And quite apart a host of ethical objections to a policy of rigorous censorship is the practical difficulty of carrying...