Word: dull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paused for a bite of chicken fried rice. "When I lost the game," he continued, "the whole pattern came clear. The whole dull routine, class to class, book to book, learn a few facts and bull your way through an exam which doesn't make sense anyway. I decided to give it up for awhile, to stay in bed and read some books carefully and listen to some records...
...half months after Gene had begun his idyll, there was a Faculty meeting. When the discussion became dull, four professors who were sitting next to each other started to gossip. Each of them, it turned out, had Gene Robertson in his class, and knew of Gene's defection. "Let's visit him," one said. "When the boy meets us in person, he will see the light." "Knowledge is a wonderful thing," they told each other incidentally, "and we will (and have and shall for evermore) tell him what is important...
...doomed Aaron Cornish spends a great deal of time conferring with his doctor and arguing the dangers of nuclear testing with a contrary-minded colleague. Most of this, if remarkably dull, can at least be called relevant. But a far greater part of the time, Dr. Cornish is being visited by relatives: a son and a daughter-in-law, a brother and a sister-in-law, a sister and a brother-in-law, a nephew and a niece. In they come with their little domestic problems, and out they go; back they come with their headaches or their beatnik poets...
...tropical carnival-random, unprincipled, delirious. And the spirit of the carnival, the pulse of life, is expressed in the drums. Before the story begins, the drums begin their swift, intoxicating beat, and after it is done, the drums are beating still. Every song of love is sung against the dull indifference of drums; every victory of death is lost in their insistence that the heart of life somewhere is always pounding. Again and again the rhythm of the drums drives the actors off into a dance that is forever forming and dissolving and forming again. Seldom has the dance...
...when Ghosts was first produced, Clement Scott, a noted London critic, called Henrik Ibsen's play "an open drain, a loathsome sore unbandaged, a dirty act done publically..." But as performed by the Lowell House Drama Group, Ghosts is not nearly so shocking as it is dull, and eventually depressing. For when Ibsen's theme emerges through the verbiage and some discouragingly flabby acting, it retains a profound meaning...