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...what Atlanta Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson calls a "federation of the fed-up." They are fed up with the portents of economic, social and moral decay they see across the U.S., particularly in its crime-infested cities. They are fed up with big government and big spending, with a bland foreign policy and with America's failure to use its power abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Republicans: Who Are the Goldwaterites? | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

Those who remember Earle Hyman's exemplary Horatio in the Festival's earlier production can only be disappointed by John Devlin's bland and colorless performance. Patrick Hines, who did Rosencrantz before, has moved up to Polonius. Given to excessive handclapping, he takes the easy way out and plays the role only for its comedy. Polonius is much more than the "foolish prating knave" Hamlet calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sawyer Sparks Stratford 'Hamlet' | 7/7/1964 | See Source »

...Words. Only a few weeks ago, Southeast Asia evoked only bland smiles from most U.S. officials. Reason: President Johnson, for understandable political reasons, had decided to continue old policies, to let things slide-without a crash landing-until after November. Things slid, all right-almost to the bottom of the slide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Unpleasant Options | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...school prayer at best could only be "so bland as to be meaningless" or "so sectarian as to be divisive," Freund stated. He emphasized that the most important effect of the Supreme Court's decision should be "a serious and basic inquiry into the moral component of public education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freund Defends Prayer Decision | 5/18/1964 | See Source »

...Steel Chairman Roger Blough is a hard man to get a rise out of. Through John Kennedy's attack on steel, through price-fixing squabbles with the Government and sniping from stockholders and legislators, Blough has steadfastly stuck to the mild manner, bland words and faint smile that have become his trademarks. At his meetings with the press, he gives only perfunctory answers, usually volunteers nothing. Almost everyone was surprised, therefore, when Blough dropped his usual reticence last week at his quarterly press conference and delivered a firm defense of the steel industry's pricing policies. It came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steel: Speaking Out | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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