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Critics find many Gannett papers parochial and uninspired, as wholesome as enriched bread but often just as bland. Even many Gannett hands are frustrated by the company's failure to produce one truly outstanding daily. A comparison is often made with Knight-Ridder, which purchased the struggling Philadelphia Inquirer in 1969 and spent millions righting it. The Inquirer, which last week won its sixth consecutive Pulitzer, now stands comfortably in the black and high in the esteem of U.S. journalists. For some of Gannett's employees, it will take more than last week's Pulitzer to make...
American textbook publishers are writing increasingly bland history texts in order not to offend pressure groups, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances Fitzgerald '62 told a small audience last night...
Eliot's sudden shift to contemporary prose here--the bland droning of board-room babble--is, if not the most subtle, certainly the most dramatically effective touch in the play: the knights appeal directly to the listeners, in impoverished but familiar language, to understand their motives. Eliot forces his audience either to accept their justifications or, rejecting them, participate in the deeper mystery around which the play hovers--the working of God's will through...
...epic poetry with a quiet intensity, able with acumen and dry with to expose the heart of the most difficult works. His lectures were models of directed intelligence; as he led students through Virgil, Spenser, Milton and Blake, he avoided the twin perils of near-sighted textual analysis and bland generality, and presented the poets as men whose ideas could instruct us or help us make sense of our own lives...
Hunt then developed a passion for silver. His bland understatement of the reason...