Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, Effie labors mightily and brings forth a creature known as "Little Mouse." After 214 pages of dim wittiness and wearisomely cute misspelling, the author's labors come to the same thing...
Beautiful Princess. Fundamentally, it is the story of the girl who marries the wrong man. "Absolutely dazzling . . . with her white skin, golden hair, classical features," Mlle. de Chartres appears at the court of Henry II of France. Everybody thinks her very beautiful, and the Prince of Cleves, a dim young man "prudent beyond his years," becomes her suitor. At her mother's urging, she marries him.Then she meets the Due de Nemours, "the most fascinating man at court," and realizes for the first time what true love is. The Princess has been too well brought up to break...
...flash-bang climax, the judge is killed by the rival mobsters, Arky avenges the murder in a downtown hotel, is caught by the cops, slips away, is caught again. In the end, facing the chair, he feels a sudden surge of relief, which may even be the first dim proddings of moral conscience...
...Heavenly Year. At first glance, Wagner and Rollins had seemed a perfect team -the union of a lively and energetic president with a lively and imaginative campus. Like any new broom, Wagner made a few mistakes. Some professors took a dim view of his enthusiasm for visual aids, which he had developed as No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. ("After all," complained one professor, "he did make that startling prediction that only 5% of the people would be reading books in 50 years"). Some students resented his attempts to tighten up Rollins' traditionally free & easy...
Parking and broadcasting at Harvard were smiled upon by the City Council yesterday, but the city fathers took a dim view of "Ecstasy...