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Evansville, Ind., is a quiet community of 141,543 on the Ohio River with all sorts of distinction. It is known as the "Home of Pablum" for its Mead Johnson cereal plant, and as the "Barbecue Capital of the U.S." for its hickory trees, which furnish lumber for barbecue fires. It is also the home of Evansville College, a Methodist institution (enrollment: 2,542) that prides itself on the Christian virtues. Like hospitality. When visiting basketball teams arrive, they get a big hello: a tour of the Museum of Arts and Science, a hearty steak dinner in the campus dining...
...added the insurance of a strong supporting cast of senior comics: Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn, Phil Harris, Everett Sloane and the late Peter Lorre. They manage now and then to do something funny, but the rest of the time they look like men struggling in an avalanche of pablum...
...Griffes and Alfredo Ginastera. But if one's scope extends to twentieth century musical ideas and materials, beyond mere rehashings of established techniques, then the HRO has been disturbingly conservative. On examination, most of the contemporary works the HRO has played have been, in style and spirit, pop-concert pablum--insipid and palatable. Almost invariably these works have been well-performed; but more than quality of performance, this community has a right to expect experimentation and education...
...conception of a United States Senator is not of a young man able to out-smile and out-handshake his opponents, who can swallow intellectual pablum spoon-fed him by a group of professors, only to gilbly regurgitate it for a radio and television audience at optimum listening hours. It is rather of a man, hopefully seasoned and matured by capable, intelligent public service, who seeks high office on the basis of his own merits, his own record, and his own ideas. Ted Kennedy certainly is not such a man. Harry F. Greene '63 Hendrik Hertzberg '65 Peter J. Wallison...
...Bells Toll. Indoors is a dining room with a broad-beamed oak floor, no rug, and a table placed so strategically that it would take a center fielder's throw ing arm to get a porringer full of Pablum to the wall. The kitchen's casement windows are ornamented with stained glass. On a counter is a Teddy bear in an electric frying pan, and a copy of Meals for Two that hasn't been opened in 15 years...