Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times that "Cézanne made an apple important; Benton ... a lynching trivial," makes another attack on Thomas Hart Benton and his fellow U.S. nationalists. Says Kootz: "Benton and Wood, Curry and Marsh . . . went American so raucously, so insistently, that they provided and inspired an enormous flood of dull, routine anecdotes. . . . Each of the nationalist lads has his own little counter to set up trade. From it he dispenses post cards, heavy with facts, guaranteed to counteract any itch that jeopardizes a continued comfort...
...class struggle" painters (of whom William Gropper is best known), Kootz says: "Gropper, for instance, has never been able to invent a plastic language of his own. . . . The plain fact of the matter is that the radical pattern of this school is as dull esthetically as the reactionary pattern of the nationalist school. Both schools trade in local incidents, the class-struggle boys bellyaching that nothing is good enough, the nationalists insisting that it was good enough for Pop and it is good enough for them. . . . Slice it any way you want and it still comes out a literary tract...
...among some professors that the system is new-fangled and a time-waster. Young instructors feel often that they are wasting time on tutorial which might better be given to their own research and scholarly work toward promotion. On the other hand, student interest has not always been overwhelming; dull sessions have discouraged work, and the absence of any sanctions has permitted laxity. Many of these trouble points will be bolstered by the course credit provisions, but these fail as long-term correctives. They are in themselves antithetical to the tutorial concept of education, whose keynote is flexibility...
...Idler, is less than completely successful as a play, it remains good entertainment. Despite handicaps inherent in the translation of romantic lyrics a foreign setting, and an inadequate theatre, the uniformly good and frequently inspired acting of a fine cast produces an evening which is never dull and is occasionally delightful...
...should be guarding him like the apple of your eye. If he dies now, you lose him. If he survives the war, there is always hope. . . . The long, dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather...