Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite a few people to know the identity of the editors' choice. Yet we always try to limit the number, right up to press time, to only those staff members who must know. So the telegrams and cables move to and from TIME'S offices under bland headings and in sealed envelopes. White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey understandably received and sent more of those messages than reporters elsewhere, but many correspondents across the nation were involved...
Harry Palmer, the bland antiheroic secret agent of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, the chap who hates his job and doesn't care what kind of dry vermouth they put in his martinis, is back with his spectacles and his non-U English accent in Billion Dollar Brain. So is Michael Caine to play him in yet another thriller by Novelist Len Deighton. But in this third outing the law of diminishing returns has begun catching up with the team...
...Bland" is the word usually used to describe Boston's Mayor-elect. He looks like most any other well-to-do State Street lawyer. The people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room don't turn their heads when he walks in. (It must be admitted that the people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room turn their heads for very few people.) He hardly attracted any attention last summer when he would hop into the Clarendon Street Brigham's for coffee before spending the morning at his Back Bay headquarters. And his voice lacked the resonance or depth that one expects...
Many of those close to White insist that he is anything but bland and that he is as imaginative and perceptive a politician as exists in the United States today...
Says one Harvard faculty member who took an active role in White's campaign, "Sure, before I started to do some work for him I thought he was just bland and craggy but he's a smart man--and a good man--with lots of very good ideas." Berkeley Rice, who did a long story on the campaign for the New York Times Magazine, commented "White suffers from a seemingly incurable and largely undeserved case of blandness...