Word: pallidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade magazine with offices on Madison Avenue, but he convinces his fiancee's respectable family that he is on a supersecret Government mission. Still, he is forced to admit to himself that his double life is vapid: "Nothing is wrong with my days, but they are pallid and dull me ... I am not undernourished...
...years passed, more and more pallid clerks and exhausted executives began taking Murata's advice by exercising their navels twice a day. The master himself, who looks 15 years younger than he is, climbed down into coal mines to spread the word. He spoke over the radio, taught the maids in the hotels he stayed at how to use their navels while cleaning and scrubbing.*His crusade got results. Executives found themselves less tense, employees more eager, and the phrase "Your navel isn't in it" is now a part of the Japanese language. Today 160 firms...
...packed houses for more than two years (1944-46). But Playwright Yordan, convinced that it was his characters and not their color that had made the play a success, decided that in the film they should change pigmentation again. They did, and somehow the film (1949) seemed rather pallid...
John Neville's pallid Hamlet is very much in tune with the production--not a hair is out of place. Mr. Neville plays not passion and fury, but sweet, mild melancholy. Hamlet's brilliant sarcasm, which should flash like lightning to relieve his overcharged soul, pales into insignificance; the clouds that hang on the soul of this Hamlet are the merest, most forgettable wisps...
...decision to televise the Gracious Speech had caused heartburn among Laborites. who feared that some of the Queen's prestige might rub off on the governing Tory Party. The pallid words that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government put in the Queen's mouth about "My Ministers' " intentions on home building and foreign policy probably changed nobody's vote. But the occasion did set the Manchester Guardian to musing about the meaning of ceremony in a democracy: "The Imperial State Crown, the Cap of Maintenance, the Sword of State, the Heralds, the Lord Great Chamberlain...