Word: dullards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carl Milles has always preferred a studio. Born in Sweden, he started modeling early, baking his clay in his mother's oven and avoiding school as much as possible. His father began to think his delicate son was a dullard. "Send the boy to me. I'll make a man of him," a friend wrote the father. Milles set out, "but I stopped in Paris. I stopped in Paris forever. For six years, I didn't write home. I was excited about...
...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...
There are also some painfully accurate re-enactments, and a parody of singing commercials ("Consolidated sardines-America's delight," etc.) which could never be too broad for its model. A dullard on a quiz program racks her brains for the name of the Father of His Country. Some soap-opera actors fight out a love crisis ("We are but straws in the wind," the unfaithful husband explains to his wife), their faces embattled in the schizoid struggle between sincerity and nausea which is one of the occupational diseases of soap-opera acting...
...show tells of a full-blooded woman (excellently played by Judith Evelyn) worn down by marriage with a stuffy dullard, but determined that her teen-age daughter Cynthia shall have fun. Unfortunately, Cynthia is a sickly girl. When her dream boy invites her to a dance, although she has a cold and it's raining pitchforks, her life-loving mother lets...
...headlines, reserved for Briand, instead blazoned the news: Ivar Kreuger, the grammar-school dullard from Kalmar, Sweden, who had grown up into the world match king, had killed himself...