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Word: bland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harder, Do Better. The official communique was properly bland, saying in effect that President Johnson had instructed Taylor to go back to Viet Nam and urge the South Vietnamese government to try harder and do better. But there was one tough-sounding sentence about how North Vietnamese help for the Communist guerrillas was building up; implied was the possibility that the U.S. might, as Taylor had urged, extend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Situation | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...prose refuse to criticize. Those who wrote at that time knew that John Kennedy had faults, but they seem to have decided to let posterity uncover them. The poets are free in criticizing the society that produced Lee Oswald and the society that watched Kennedy's death. "Prim doormen bland and perfectly usual/Such memorial!" writes Lorenzo Thomas...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Kennedy in Books: The Consensus Begins Emerging | 11/19/1964 | See Source »

Blue Eyes v. Blue Jowls. His campaign was managed by Robert Finch, Dick Nixon's old stage director. And the winning script was simple enough: be bland, be affable, offend no one by taking controversial stands, and never let anyone forget that Salinger was a carpetbagging resident of Virginia when he entered the campaign. To please the right wing, Murphy endorsed Goldwater; to please the moderates, he constantly referred to his differences with Barry on the civil rights bill and foreign aid cuts. Murphy's blue-eyed good looks contrasted jarringly with Pierre's blue-jowled appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Just Call Him Senator | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

These Conservative errors have done for Labour what Labour could not do for itself. They have dissipated the general apathy which was undoubtedly helping the Tories. Earlier in the campaign, Mr. Wilson and his subordinates could not change the languid mood with their bland talks on housing, pensions, and education. But once voters--especially floating or undecided voters--began to take interest in the election, they seemed to respond more favorably to the issues Labour raises than to Sir Alec's favorites: the independent nuclear deterrent and the dangers of nationalization. And the possibility of a balance of payments crisis...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Britain: Safety First | 10/13/1964 | See Source »

...funny and sparely written example of that familiar genre, the satiric comedy of Jewish urban life. Stations is far more ambitious, and if it fails at last-too heavy, too short to teach the reader the symbols, and yet sometimes too obvious-it is more arresting than the bland small successes that are published by the dozen each week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Strong Stomachs | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

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