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Bill Bradley, George W. Bush, and Elizabeth Dole are wooing voters with charm, biography, anodyne rhetoric, and "calculated haze."
In so doing, he shows us that a great deal of sadism, animality, and outright lust can lurk behind people's anodyne professions that they just want to "uphold the law" or "maintain a level of decency."
They came thick and fast, starting Saturday in the Times of London, which disclosed that Melita Norwood (code name "Hola") had passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union for 40 years while she worked as a secretary for the Tube Alloys project, a deliberately anodyne term for Britain's nuclear weapons program.
Oddly enough, a century ago we did much the same thing with a rude Dutch term, pappekak , which we anglicized into the anodyne poppycock .
But after about an hour of anodyne sentiments, Rahm Emanuel, a Clinton political adviser more pugnacious than the others, couldn't take it any more.