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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...
Last week, in the course of the bland functioning of machinery that exchanges Soviet and U.S. scholars, Rozhdestvensky and four other Soviet writers came to Yale University, towed by Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence College. Just as international fellowship was beginning to ripen, a chap burst in to charge the Soviet poet with "almost pathological anti-Americanism," which he documented by quoting the poems. The rude fellow was Charles Moser, 29, assistant professor of Slavic languages at Yale, and a graduate exchange student at the University of Leningrad five years ago. He argued that "to give the Russians...
...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...
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...
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...