Word: boringly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...script and directed the film, with his actress wife Jean Seberg-they are now separated-in the lead. This was his first effort at moviemaking, and it was a terrible mistake. In Birds in Peru, he seems to be sketching out a private fantasy, like the breakfast-table bore who insists on recounting his dreams...
Worse than these errors of omission is the characterization of him as "perfunctory" and "a prejudiced bore." The young people who flocked to his courses from all fields of concentration did not consider "perfunctory" the compassionate man who, 50 years ago, fought for some of the same causes now motivating the student protests. I doubt that he ever had a boring class session in his life, and, like his master Socrates, whose method of teaching he emulated, his "prejudice" was for the pursuit of truth, wherever it might lead...
Lofty en Garde. Yet despite these wide-ranging activities, there are signs that the Komsomol is losing its appeal for many Soviet youth. There is no war and no revolution to chal lenge the present generation, and many young Russians find indoctrination a bore. The growing dissent and dissatisfaction in Russia doubtlessly have infected the Komsomol, along with other elements of Soviet society. Party Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev underlined the leadership's concern when he told Komsomoltsy in his 50th anniversary speech: "Class enemies disguising themselves as the friends of youth strive to draw politically unstable, inexperienced young people...
...noted that President Andrew Johnson gave such an amnesty in 1868 to the former soldiers of the Confederate States of America. "Certainly, if we can take back men who bore arms against their country, we can take back men who objected to an immoral war," Cox said...
This kind of partisan polarity is as familiar to Americans as Sears Roebuck and peanut butter. But since World War II, modern scholarship has nitpicked Turner to death-on grounds of detailed inaccuracy and cloudy thinkng. Parrington has been buried by the New Criticism as a prejudiced bore and a square to boot-both of which he most emphatically was. Beard has not so much been demolished as deplored for his slighting of the non-economic complexities of history...