Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is there to say? The story is trite, dull, hackneyed, uninspired. it was fired from the slick, sleazy pages of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and it didn't have any other place to go besides Holly-wood, where it was enthusiastically hailed as a proper vehicle for you know who. It deals with boarding houses and mortgages and saving the old place by opening up a night club, and it was written by Louis Bromfield, who makes a lot of money writing about such things and who gave us "The Rains Came...
...pleased to notice that your critics don't lose their heads as completely as those of some other publications do, in discussing the works of John Steinbeck. Quite aside from the veracity of his material, I find him dull and phony, and can't for the life of me understand the tremendous vogue he's having. He doesn't really like or understand working people, to my way of thinking, and he's so very sentimental and pompous; in fact as far as I'm concerned, he's nothing but a stuffed workshirt...
...show because teachers at the Institute's art school sat on the jury, gave the prizes to their pupils. This year Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich sent out ballots to 1,091 eligible artists and asked them to elect their own jury. The results seemed about the same. "Dull mediocrity," said Critic Clarence Joseph Bulliet of the Chicago Daily News. Top prize, the Logan Medal and $500, went to Lawrence Adams for his bright, thinly painted West Side in Winter...
...variance, Artist Segall's work, like himself, is meticulous, disciplined, treats trouble tranquilly. His paintings have volume, seem big even when they are small. Using low-keyed earth colors-burnt sienna, ochre, silver grey, black, dull red, dark green-and firm, concise lines, he strikes a sober balance between emotion and restraint. Savage as an air raid but far stiller is his Pogrom, a huddled heap of corpses lying quietly on a Torah scroll...
This sensible thesis is given by Adler with almost stainless clarity and with only an occasional glitter of that acerbity by which dull students at Chicago remember him. Adler admits that he has an ulterior motive: to appeal over the heads of conventional and progressive educators to the great reading public, to, show them what education might be and" is not. Putting first things first, competence in reading is a prerequisite to understanding nine-tenths of what men have known...