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Brown is having less trouble with Younger, known as "mashed potatoes" because of his bland campaigning, than with his onetime liberal supporters. Asks Shirley Wechsler, executive director of Americans for Democratic Action in Southern California: "Why should the 20% of the electorate identifying themselves as liberals vote for the Jarvisized Democrats?" Brown replies evenly that it is possible to "move left and right at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Candidates, Right Looks Right | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta, Kennedy was asked by an English friend where President Johnson was. "Kennedy observed, without bravado, that lack of physical courage kept him away." It is hard to decide which is more offensive, Kennedy's insult or Schlesinger's bland, exculpatory narration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Re-Creation of the Way It Was | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...could go on a regular Crimson Key Tour. These are very nice, very traditional (your uncle who went here probably led them when he was an undergrad), but after all, sort of bland. The Crimson Key Society, which runs these officially-approved tours, makes the University attractive and awe-inspiring. But after that, if you have any more curiosity than a hermit crab, you'll want to find out what the place is really like...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Crazy Bob's Tour of Harvard, (Or What's Under All That Ivy, Sir?) | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...Howard Baker are convinced that he is. But Democrats have grown used to the old Kennedy ploy of keeping a high profile and then backing away. Nonetheless, many of them are eager for his candidacy, and a lot of their eagerness is based on dismay over Carter's bland leadership. "In New York," said one top Democratic leader, "I could raise a million dollars in ten days if Kennedy just gave the word." Even if Kennedy doesn't give the word, some politicians believe that they can make him a candidate anyway. Last week a group of influential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: When Carter goes down, I go up | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...narrator. Though Argentine-born, Guevara had no prominent involvement in the history of his country during the Perón era and did not know Evita. Why Rice has included him is a mystery, since the writer seems to know little about him. In Evita, Che is a bland, almost apolitical character who, his guerrilla garb aside, might just as aptly be called the Stage Manager or, for that matter, Nick Carraway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Eva Peron, Superstar | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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