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...revolution her group is interested in making is a relatively modest one--there is no room for "dreamers," nature freaks, or ideologists in Twin Oaks. The 40 community members face up to "responsibility," embrace technology and efficiency, and pursue their dreams and pleasures privately. But Kinkade spices this somewhat bland concoction with bits of B.F. Skinner. What we are really trying to do, she says, is create a community following the instructions set down in Walden Two: first, shape the individual's desires and behavior by use of controlled reinforcements (that is, utilize reward and punishment) in order to create...
...likely that fair and responsive candidates will be seriously considered for the post of dean. Unless Bok earnestly and openly consults liberal Faculty, junior Faculty, and students before making his selection, we are likely to see a dean as stale as his predecessor, and several degrees more bland and petty...
Elaborately bland hospital menus were torn up as the men wolfed down their first American food in years. Some were painfully limping as they returned, most were gray-faced and underweight, and a few seemed a little dazed. But the majority of the men, on first inspection, seemed physically fit, emotionally taut and almost boyishly delighted by their re-entry into the American world...
...better-although for what purpose is not so clear. True, there are no more cigarette commercials, and some programs called Sesame Street and The Electric Company are brightening the day for children. But for adults, it is, as always, lame adventure series and innocuous sitcoms, the halt leading the bland. There are fewer talk shows and more movies made expressly for TV-all of them, it seems, starring James Farentino and George Peppard...
...increasing realization throughout the newspaper industry that photographs had become indispensable to a modern newspaper, and practically every Sunday paper in the country was groping its way toward the new age of photography with a rotogravure section. This particular phenomenon was more often than not an innocuous, somewhat bland showcase for less than brilliant photographs. The Harvard Illustrated was no exception. Since its beginning in 1899, it had given itself largely to posed, rather staid photographs of events at Harvard, group shots of teams and extracurricular activities, and portraits of important Harvard personages...