Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really advanced physicists, nuclear fission is old, dull stuff. What excites them now is "ultra-nucleonics," study of "the elementary particles within the atom which are capable of releasing thousands of times as much energy as is produced by the nuclear fission on which the A-bomb is based." To these men, trained in the esoteric mysteries of quantum mechanics, all matter is merely condensed energy. It is formed by the interaction of waves, and to waves it can return. What a triumph it would be, they speculate, to turn matter all at once into waves of energy...
When little Jimmy Jeans was born in 1877, science was smug and dull. It considered the universe a mere machine governed by well-known laws. When Sir James Hopwood Jeans (O.M.; M.A.; D.Sc.; LL.D.; D.L.; F.R.S.) died in England last week at 69, the universe had once again become a mystery, and- thanks to war-conscripted science-a dangerous mystery...
...worked out very suavely by one of the most workmanlike of narrative puzzle-makers. Graves's account of Jesus' childhood in Egypt is written with simplicity and reverence; his accounts of ancient ritual surpass anything in The Golden Bough; his reporting of ancient theological discussions is sometimes dull but often absorbing, for Graves is a writer of practiced lucidity. If it could be read in the same spirit as the Claudius books, King Jesus would be fair enough reading...
Centennial Summer--at the Metropolitan--Yet another musical, this one with Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, and Linda Darnell, and all of it very dull despite Jerome Kern's music...
This long, dull, maddeningly unmotivated story wastes the hard-working actors, famed Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Farewell to Arms), the Technicolor, the dressy sets. Only item worth the expense: the brilliant piano playing on the sound track by Artur Rubinstein, who was paid $85,000-a whopping price, even in Hollywood, for a musical background...